Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere

by Lara Atkin, Porscha Fermanis, Sarah Comyn

Book Overview

This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and 'new imperial history' paradigms that privilege imbricated colonial and metropolitan 'intercultures', it looks at the neglected role of public libraries in shaping a programme of Anglophone civic education, scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013274466
• ISBN13: 9781013274466
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"