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Atkin, Lara.

Early public libraries and colonial citizenship in the British Southern hemisphere

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Early public libraries and colonial citizenship in the British Southern hemisphereby Lara Atkin ... [et al.].
other author:	Atkin, Lara.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019.
Description:	xvii, 159 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Public librariesHistory19th century.Commonwealth countries
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20426-6
ISBN:	9783030204266$q(electronic bk.)

Early public libraries and colonial citizenship in the British Southern hemisphere
Early public libraries and colonial citizenship in the British Southern hemisphere[electronic resource] /by Lara Atkin ... [et al.]. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019. - xvii, 159 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - New directions in book history. - New directions in book history..

1. Introduction -- 2. From Community to Public Libraries: Liberalism, Education, and Self-Government -- 3. Cultivating Public Readers: Citizens, Classes, and Types -- 4. 'A mob of light readers': Holdings, Genre Proportions, and Modes of Reading -- 5. Knowing the 'Native Mind': Ethnological and Philological Collections -- 6. Conclusion.

Open access.

This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and 'new imperial history' paradigms that privilege imbricated colonial and metropolitan 'intercultures', it looks at the neglected role of public libraries in shaping a programme of Anglophone civic education, scientific knowledge creation, and modernisation in the British southern hemisphere. The book's six chapters analyse institutional models and precedents, reading publics and types, book holdings and catalogues, and regional scientific networks in order to demonstrate the significance of these libraries for the construction of colonial identity, citizenship, and national self-government as well as charting their influence in shaping perceptions of social class, gender, and race. Using primary source material from the recently completed 'Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere' digital archive, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse, contributing to broader debates on imperial citizenship and nation-statehood across different geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders.

ISBN: 9783030204266$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-20426-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

848325
Public libraries
--History--Commonwealth countries--19th century.

LC Class. No.: Z721

Dewey Class. No.: 027.409171241

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