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  title info:
    title: Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
  name:
    name part: Atkin, Lara.
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      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Comyn, Sarah.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Fermanis, Porscha.
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Garvey, Nathan.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XVII, 159 pages 7 illustrations)
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Lara Atkin, Sarah Comyn, Porscha Fermanis, Nathan Garvey.
  note: Open Access
  subject:
    topic: Books-History
  subject:
    topic: Literature-History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-18th century
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  subject:
    topic: History of the Book
  subject:
    topic: Literary History
  subject:
    topic: Eighteenth-Century Literature
  subject:
    topic: Postcolonial/World Literature
  classification: Z4-15.2
  classification: 002
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Nature eBook
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New Directions in Book History
  identifier: 9783030204266
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20426-6
  access condition: Open Access
  record info:
    record creation date: 190621
    record change date: 20230829014736.3
    record identifier: in00004425068