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oapen-20.500.12657-417372020-09-22T00:48:45Z Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere Atkin, Lara Comyn, Sarah Fermanis, Porscha Garvey, Nathan History of the Book Literary History Eighteenth-Century Literature Postcolonial/World Literature Literature transatlantic library studies British colonies South Africa British colonies Australia British colonies Southeast Asia book catalogues Anglophone colonial literary culture social history of the library colonial citizenship Open Access Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: post-colonial literature bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBD Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 -::DSBH5 Literary studies: post-colonial literature 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. 2020-09-21T13:41:19Z 2020-09-21T13:41:19Z 2019 book ONIX_20200921_9783030204266_94 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41737 eng New Directions in Book History application/pdf n/a 2019_Book_EarlyPublicLibrariesAndColonia.pdf https://www.springer.com/9783030204266 Springer Nature Palgrave Pivot 10.1007/978-3-030-20426-6 10.1007/978-3-030-20426-6 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 Palgrave Pivot 159 open access
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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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