Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
Language: English
Published by palgrave macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2019
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- Title
- Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
- Author
- Atkin, Lara, Sarah Comyn, Porscha Fermanis, Nathan Garvey
- Publisher
- palgrave macmillan, Cham, Switzerland
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3030204251
- ISBN 13
- 9783030204259
- Edition
- 1st.
- Series
- Book 11 of 22: 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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About the Author
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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