Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere - Couverture rigide

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Atkin, Lara; Comyn, Sarah; Fermanis, Porscha; Garvey, Nathan

 
9783030204259: Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
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ISBN 10 : 3030204251 ISBN 13 : 9783030204259
Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019

Synopsis

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.


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À propos de l'auteur

Lara Atkin is a European Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Sarah Comyn is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland, and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded 'SouthHem' project.

Nathan Garvey is a European Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.


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Éditeur
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3030204251
ISBN 13 
9783030204259
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
176
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9783030204280: Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere

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ISBN 10 :  3030204286 ISBN 13 :  9783030204280
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot, 2020
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