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Libraries and Enlightenment : Eighteenth-Century Norway and the Outer World /

During the Enlightenment, other peoples, and also their cultures, were much discussed, with debates often focusing on their value as human beings and the level of tolerance that they were to be granted. Books on 'outer worlds', classified in libraries as historia, were an integral part of...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Dahl, Gina (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The world in libraries
  • The idea of history
  • the art of classification
  • Inclusions, exclusions and major patterns of book dissemination
  • Worlds nearby and worlds distant
  • The world in books
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Russia
  • America.