Before the public library : reading, community, and identity in the Atlantic world, 1650-1850 /

Before the public library : reading, community, and identity in the Atlantic world, 1650-1850 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Description:	xvii, 415 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 61 The handpress world ; volume 46 Library of the written word ; 61. Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 46.
Subject:	Libraries -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History. Libraries and community -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History. Libraries and society -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History. Books and reading -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History. Books and reading. Libraries. Libraries and community. Libraries and society. Atlantic Ocean Region. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11425301

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Other authors / contributors:	Towsey, Mark R. M., editor. Roberts, Kyle B., editor.
ISBN:	9789004348660 9004348662 9789004348677
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Online version: Before the public library Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004348677

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