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Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere

Year: 2019

Type: book

Abstract: This open access book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Using primary source material, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse.

Source: New directions in book history

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-20426-6

Authors: Lara Atkin, Sarah Comyn, Porscha Fermanis, Nathan Garvey

Institution: University College Dublin

Language: English

Topic: Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, National Library of Australia, H2020 European Research Council

Award: Realigning British Romanticism: White Settler and Indigenous Writing in the British-Controlled Southern Hemisphere, 1783-1870