Before the Public Library: Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 by Towsey

Before the Public Library: Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004348660)

Vendor: Mark Towsey
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Format: Hardcover
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Before the Public Library: Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 by Towsey

Before the Public Library: Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850

$182.00
Before the Public Library: Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 by Towsey

Before the Public Library: Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850

$182.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important - and largely unrecognized - role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions.

Author: Mark Towsey
ISBN-10: 9004348662
ISBN-13: 9789004348660
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2017
Pages: 436
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.20d
By Mark Towsey
By Mark Towsey
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Mark Towsey PhD (2007), University of St Andrews, is Reader in Modern British History and Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre at the University of Liverpool.

Kyle B. Roberts PhD (2007), University of Pennsylvania, is Associate Professor of Public History and New Media in the History Department and Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago.

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