书目名称 | Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere | 编辑 | Lara‘Atkin,Sarah Comyn,Nathan Garvey | 视频video | | 概述 | Draws on transnational and new imperial history paradigms.Addresses the histories of race, science, and settler colonialism in relation to institutional histories of public libraries.Studies major col | 丛书名称 | New Directions in Book History | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 citize | 出版日期 | Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2019 | 关键词 | transatlantic library studies; British colonies South Africa; British colonies Australia; British colon | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20426-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-20426-6Series ISSN 2634-6117 Series E-ISSN 2634-6125 | issn_series | 2634-6117 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |
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