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Author:   Mark Towsey ,  Kyle B. Roberts
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   61
Weight:   0.847kg
ISBN:  

9789004348660

ISBN 10:   9004348662
Pages:   418
Publication Date:   05 December 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Mark Towsey and Kyle B. Roberts Part 1: Empire and Enlightenment 1 Building Religious Communities with Books: The Quaker and Anglican Transatlantic Libraries, 1650–1710  Louisiane Ferlier 2 Poetry and Civic Urbanism in the Coffee-House Library in the Mid-eighteenth Century  Markman Ellis 3 Of Mudfish, Harpsichords and Books: Libraries and Community in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica  April G. Shelford 4 Affleck Generations: The Libraries of the Boswells of Auchinleck, 1695–1825  James J. Caudle 5 Sedition, Revolution and Libertinism in Eighteenth-Century Brazil: The Library of Naturalist José Vieira Couto  Júnia Ferreira Furtado Part 2: Revolution and Nation Building 6 Uncommon Knowledge: Late Eighteenth-Century American Subscription Library Collections  Cheryl Knott 7 Reading Sheffield: Sheffield Libraries and Book Clubs, 1771–1850  Sue Roe and Loveday Herridge 8 Challenging Institutional Ambitions: The Practice of Book Exchanges at the New York Society Library, 1789–1795  Rob Koehler 9 A “Quaint Corner” of the Reading Nation: Romantic Readerships in Rural Perthshire, 1780–1830  Katie Halsey Part 3: Institutionalisation and Expansion 10 From Private Devotion to “Public” Education: Northern Dissenting Academy Libraries and Their Benefactors  Rachel Eckersley 11 The Foundation of Plymouth Public Library: Cultural Status, Philanthropy and Expanding Readerships, 1810–1825  Annika Bautz 12 Reading on the Edge of the Atlantic: The Easton Library Company  Christopher Phillips 13 Crafting Respectability: The Politics of Class at the Mechanic Apprentices’ Library of Boston  Lynda K. Yankaskas Part 4: Public Libraries 14 Reading Publics: Books, Communities and Readers in the Early History of American Public Libraries  Tom Glynn 15 From Voluntary to State Action: Samuel Smiles, James Silk Buckingham and the Rise of the Public Library Movement in Britain  Alistair Black Bibliography of Secondary Works Index

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This is a significant book and deserves to be widely read. Its chapters are ably argued and impressively researched. Major themes recur such as ideas of community libraries and the place of libraries in local and national identity, while the thorny question of fiction is well-rehearsed. Keith Manley, in: Library & Information History, Vol. 34, No. 3 (2018), pp. 184-185.

This is a significant book and deserves to be widely read. Its chapters are ably argued and impressively researched. Major themes recur such as ideas of community libraries and the place of libraries in local and national identity, while the thorny question of fiction is well-rehearsed. Keith Manley, in: Library & Information History, Vol. 34, No. 3 (2018), pp. 184-185. Towsey and Roberts's undertaking is unique and sets a new standard for historical exploration of library history. Without hesitation, I recommend thus important book for all libraries whose mission is to support and maintain access to quality research. Edward A. Goedeken, Iowa State University. In: Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2019), 121-123.

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Mark Towsey PhD (2007), University of St Andrews, is Reader in Modern British History and Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre at the University of Liverpool. Kyle B. Roberts PhD (2007), University of Pennsylvania, is Associate Professor of Public History and New Media in the History Department and Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago.

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