TY - SER
AU - Lara Atkin
AU - Sarah Comyn
AU - Porscha Fermanis
AU - Nathan Garvey
CY - Cham, Switzerland
LA - English
N1 - <p>Examines six libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Uses sources from the larger 'Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere' project, https://southhem.org/category/library-catalogues/&nbsp;</p><p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Introduction</li><li>From Community to Public Libraries: Liberalism, Education, and Self-Government</li><li>Cultivating Public Readers: Citizens, Classes, and Types</li><li>'A mob of light readers': Holdings, Genre Proportions, and Modes of Reading</li><li>Knowing the 'Native Mind': Ethnological and Philological Collections</li><li>Conclusion&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Appendices:</p><ul><li>Appendix A: Explanatory Note on Catalogue Sources </li><li>Appendix B: Volume Numbers of Colonial Public Libraries </li><li>Appendix C: Genre Proportions of Colonial Public Libraries by Title</li></ul>
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
PP - Cham, Switzerland
PY - 2019
SN - 9783030204259
EP - 159 pp.
TI - Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
ER -