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Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: New Directions in Book History
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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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