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The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
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The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 considers the
history of the libraries that the East India Company and Regular
Army respectively established for soldiers during the nineteenth
century. Drawing upon a wide range of material, including archival
sources, official reports, and soldiers' memoirs and letters, this
book explores the motivations of those who were responsible for the
setting up and/or operation of the libraries, and examines what
they reveal about attitudes to military readers in particular and,
more broadly, to working-class readers - and leisure - at this
period. Murphy's study also considers the contents of the
libraries, identifying what kinds of works were provided for
soldiers and where and how they read them. In so doing, The British
Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 affords another way of
thinking about some of the key debates that mark book history
today, and illuminates areas of interest to the general reader as
well as to literary critics and military and cultural historians.
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