Before the Public Library Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 |
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| Editor:
| Towsey, Mark
Roberts, Kyle B. |
| Series title: | Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-34866-0 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2017 |
| Publisher: | BRILL
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $182.00 |
Book Description:
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Before the Public Libraryexplores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World in the two centuries before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century through essays by eighteen leading scholars.
Before the Public Libraryexplores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World in the two centuries before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century through essays by eighteen leading scholars.