Libraries and Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Norway and the Outer World
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2014
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Author:
Gina Dahl |
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228 pp.
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Aarhus University Press
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Aarhus, Denmark
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| ISBN |
9788771243505
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| Annotation |
Uses books to explore the world as seen by Norwegian readers. Examined catalogs of 63 book collections recorded in the 18th century.
Contents:
The world in libraries
The idea of history -- the art of classification
Inclusions, exclusions and major patterns of book dissemination
Worlds nearby and worlds distant
The world in books -- Africa -- Asia -- Russia -- America
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