TY - SER
AU - Sterling Joseph Coleman Jr.
CY - New York, NY
LA - English
N1 - <p>Examines three colonial subscription libraries-the Penang Library in Malaysia, the General Library of the Institute of Jamaica and the Lagos Library in Nigeria-during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.&nbsp;</p><p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The rise of the British colonial book trade </li><li>Colonial clubs, clubland and clubbability </li><li>Crises in the British metropolis and colonies </li><li>The Penang Library: a survivor in paradise </li><li>The General Library of the Institute of Jamaica: a road paved with good intentions </li><li>The Lagos Library: a book club by any other name </li><li>Shifts in the British metropolis and colonies</li></ul>
PB - Taylor and Francis
PP - New York, NY
PY - 2020
SN - 9780367434724
EP - 189 pp.
TI - How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire
ER -