Libraries and Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Norway and the Outer World

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2014
Author
Author: Gina Dahl
Language
English
Number of Pages
228 pp.
Publisher
Aarhus University Press
City
Aarhus, Denmark
Region
Europe
Library Type
Private/Personal Library
Chronological Period
18th century
ISBN
9788771243505
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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