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Before the public library : reading, community, and identity in the Atlantic world, 1650-1850 /
"Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Library of the written word ;
61. Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 46. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Building Religious Communities with Books: the Quaker and Anglican Transatlantic Libraries, 1650-1710 / Louisiane Ferlier
- Poetry and Civic Urbanism in the Coffee-house Library in the Mid-eighteenth Century / Markman Ellis
- Of Mudfish, Harpsichords and Books: Libraries and Community in Eighteenth-century Jamaica / April G. Shelford
- Affleck Generations: the Libraries of the Boswells of Auchinleck,1695-1825 / James J. Caudle
- Sedition, Revolution and Libertinism In Eighteenth-century Brazil: the Library Of Naturalist Jose Vieira Couto / Junia Ferreira Furtado
- Uncommon Knowledge: Late Eighteenth-century American Subscription Library Collections / Cheryl Knott
- Reading Sheffield: Sheffield Libraries and Book Clubs, 1771-1850 / Sue Roe and Loveday Herridge
- Challenging Institutional Ambitions: the Practice of Book Exchanges at the New York Society Library, 1789-1795 / Rob Koehler
- A "Quaint Corner" of the Reading Nation: Romantic Readerships in Rural Perthshire, 1780-1830 / Katie Halsey
- From Private Devotion to "Public" Education: Northern Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Benefactors / Rachel Eckersley
- The Foundation of Plymouth Public Library: Cultural Status, Philanthropy and Expanding Readerships, 1810-1825 / Annika Bautz
- Reading on the Edge of the Atlantic: the Easton Library Company / Christopher Phillips
- Crafting Respectability: the Politics of Class at the Mechanic Apprentices' Library of Boston / Lynda K. Yankaskas
- Reading Publics: Books, Communities and Readers in the Early History of American Public Libraries / Tom Glynn
- From Voluntary to State Action: Samuel Smiles, James Silk Buckingham and the Rise of the Public Library Movement in Britain / Alistair Black.