TY - SER
AU - Mark R.M. Towsey
AU - Kyle B. Roberts
CY - Leiden, Netherlands
LA - English
N1 - <p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><ol><li>Building Religious Communities with Books: the Quaker and Anglican Transatlantic Libraries, 1650-1710 / Louisiane Ferlier </li><li>Poetry and Civic Urbanism in the Coffee-house Library in the Mid-eighteenth Century / Markman Ellis </li><li>Of Mudfish, Harpsichords and Books: Libraries and Community in Eighteenth-century Jamaica / April G. Shelford </li><li>Affleck Generations: the Libraries of the Boswells of Auchinleck,1695-1825 / James J. Caudle </li><li>Sedition, Revolution and Libertinism In Eighteenth-century Brazil: the Library Of Naturalist Jose Vieira Couto / Junia Ferreira Furtado </li><li>Uncommon Knowledge: Late Eighteenth-century American Subscription Library Collections / Cheryl Knott </li><li>Reading Sheffield: Sheffield Libraries and Book Clubs, 1771-1850 / Sue Roe and Loveday Herridge </li><li>Challenging Institutional Ambitions: the Practice of Book Exchanges at the New York Society Library, 1789-1795 / Rob Koehler </li><li>A "Quaint Corner" of the Reading Nation: Romantic Readerships in Rural Perthshire, 1780-1830 / Katie Halsey </li><li>From Private Devotion to "Public" Education: Northern Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Benefactors / Rachel Eckersley </li><li>The Foundation of Plymouth Public Library: Cultural Status, Philanthropy and Expanding Readerships, 1810-1825 / Annika Bautz </li><li>Reading on the Edge of the Atlantic: the Easton Library Company / Christopher Phillips </li><li>Crafting Respectability: the Politics of Class at the Mechanic Apprentices' Library of Boston / Lynda K. Yankaskas </li><li>Reading Publics: Books, Communities and Readers in the Early History of American Public Libraries / Tom Glynn </li><li>From Voluntary to State Action: Samuel Smiles, James Silk Buckingham and the Rise of the Public Library Movement in Britain / Alistair Black</li></ol>
PB - Brill
PP - Leiden, Netherlands
PY - 2017
SN - 9789004348660
EP - 436 pp.
TI - Before the Public Library: Reading, Community, and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850
ER -