Early Public Libraries And Colonial Citizenship In The British Southern Hemisphere

Author : Lara Atkin,Sarah Comyn,Porscha Fermanis,Nathan Garvey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030204266

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Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere by Lara Atkin,Sarah Comyn,Porscha Fermanis,Nathan Garvey Pdf

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 knowledge creation, and modernisation in the British southern hemisphere. The book’s six chapters analyse institutional models and precedents, reading publics and types, book holdings and catalogues, and regional scientific networks in order to demonstrate the significance of these libraries for the construction of colonial identity, citizenship, and national self-government as well as charting their influence in shaping perceptions of social class, gender, and race. Using primary source material from the recently completed ‘Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere’ digital archive, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse, contributing to broader debates on imperial citizenship and nation-statehood across different geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders.

Author : Nathan Garvey,Porscha Fermanis,Sarah Comyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1013274474

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Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere by Nathan Garvey,Porscha Fermanis,Sarah Comyn Pdf

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 knowledge creation, and modernisation in the British southern hemisphere. The book's six chapters analyse institutional models and precedents, reading publics and types, book holdings and catalogues, and regional scientific networks in order to demonstrate the significance of these libraries for the construction of colonial identity, citizenship, and national self-government as well as charting their influence in shaping perceptions of social class, gender, and race. Using primary source material from the recently completed 'Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere' digital archive, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse, contributing to broader debates on imperial citizenship and nation-statehood across different geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : ATKIN. LARA.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030204286

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EARLY PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND COLONIAL CITIZENSHIP IN THE BRITISH SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. by ATKIN. LARA. Pdf

Author : Andrew Pettegree,Arthur der Weduwen
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541600782

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The Library by Andrew Pettegree,Arthur der Weduwen Pdf

Perfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age. Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes, or filled with bean bags and children’s drawings—the history of the library is rich, varied, and stuffed full of incident. In The Library, historians Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen introduce us to the antiquarians and philanthropists who shaped the world’s great collections, trace the rise and fall of literary tastes, and reveal the high crimes and misdemeanors committed in pursuit of rare manuscripts. In doing so, they reveal that while collections themselves are fragile, often falling into ruin within a few decades, the idea of the library has been remarkably resilient as each generation makes—and remakes—the institution anew. Beautifully written and deeply researched, The Library is essential reading for booklovers, collectors, and anyone who has ever gotten blissfully lost in the stacks.

Author : Rose Jonathan Rose
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781474461931

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Edinburgh History of Reading by Rose Jonathan Rose Pdf

Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesCovers pornography and the origins of the transgender movementExplores everyday reading in Nazi GermanyAnalyses prison readingExamines reading in revolutionary societies and occupied nationsSubversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world. This kind of insurgent reading may be found everywhere: in revolutionary France and Nazi Germany, in Eastern Europe under Communism and in Australian and Iranian prisons, among eighteenth-century women reading history and nineteenth-century men reading erotica, among postcolonial Africans, the blind, and pioneering transgender activists.

Author : Tony Ballantyne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350264175

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The Making and Remaking of Australasia by Tony Ballantyne Pdf

This book explores the emergence of 'Australasia' as a way of thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although it is frequently understood to apply only to Australia and New Zealand, the concept has a longer and more complicated history. 'Australasia' emerged in the mid-18th century in both French and British writing as European empires extended their reach into Asia and the Pacific, and initially held strong links to the Asian continent. The book shows that interpretations and understandings of 'Australasia' shifted away from Asia in light of British imperial interests in the 19th century, and the concept was adapted by varying political agendas and cultural visions in order to reach into the Pacific or towards Antarctica. The Making and Remaking of Australasia offers a number of rich case studies which highlight how the idea itself was adapted and moulded by people and texts both in the southern hemisphere and the imperial metropole where a range of competing actors articulated divergent visions of this part of the British Empire. An important contribution to the cultural history of the British Empire, Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Studies, this collection shows how 'Australasia' has had multiple, often contrasting, meanings.

Author : Kathleen Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108846141

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Strolling Players of Empire by Kathleen Wilson Pdf

Why did Britons get up a play wherever they went? Kathleen Wilson reveals how the performance of English theater and a theatricalized way of viewing the world shaped the geopolitics and culture of empire in the long eighteenth century. Ranging across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans to encompass Kingston, Calcutta, Fort Marlborough, St. Helena and Port Jackson as well as London and provincial towns, she shows how Britons on the move transformed peripheries into historical stages where alternative collectivities were enacted, imagined and lived. Men and women of various ethnicities, classes and legal statuses produced and performed English theater in the world, helping to consolidate a national and imperial culture. The theater of empire also enabled non-British people to adapt or interpret English cultural traditions through their own performances, as Englishness also became a production of non-English peoples across the globe.

Author : James T. Costa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691233789

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Radical by Nature by James T. Costa Pdf

A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast Asia were the stuff of legend. A collector of thousands of species new to science, he shared in the discovery of natural selection and founded the discipline of evolutionary biogeography. Radical by Nature tells the story of Wallace’s epic life and achievements, from his stellar rise from humble origins to his complicated friendship with Charles Darwin and other leading scientific lights of Britain to his devotion to social causes and movements that threatened to alienate him from scientific society. James Costa draws on letters, notebooks, and journals to provide a multifaceted account of a revolutionary life in science as well as Wallace’s family life. He shows how the self-taught Wallace doggedly pursued bold, even radical ideas that caused a seismic shift in the natural sciences, and how he also courted controversy with nonscientific pursuits such as spiritualism and socialism. Costa describes Wallace’s courageous social advocacy of women’s rights, labor reform, and other important issues. He also sheds light on Wallace’s complex relationship with Darwin, describing how Wallace graciously applauded his friend and rival, becoming one of his most ardent defenders. Weaving a revelatory narrative with the latest scholarship, Radical by Nature paints a mesmerizing portrait of a multifaceted thinker driven by a singular passion for science, a commitment to social justice, and a lifelong sense of wonder.

Author : Anna Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009186902

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The Antipodean Laboratory by Anna Johnston Pdf

Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about religion, science, and society. Using a rich variety of sources including botanical illustrations, Victorian literature and convict memoirs, this multi-disciplinary study charts how new ways of identifying ideas were forged and circulated between colonies.

Author : Jessica Coates,Victoria Owen,Susan Reilly
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110732009

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Navigating Copyright for Libraries by Jessica Coates,Victoria Owen,Susan Reilly Pdf

Information is a critical resource for personal, economic and social development. Libraries and archives are the primary access point to information for individuals and communities with much of the information protected by copyright or licence terms. In this complex legal environment, librarians and information professionals operate at the fulcrum of copyright’s balance, ensuring understanding of and compliance with copyright legislation and enabling access to knowledge in the pursuit of research, education and innovation. This book, produced on behalf of the IFLA Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) Advisory Committee, provides basic and advanced information about copyright, outlines limitations and exceptions, discusses communicating with users and highlights emerging copyright issues. The chapters note the significance of the topic; describe salient points of the law and legal concepts; present selected comparisons of approaches around the world; highlight opportunities for reform and advocacy; and help libraries and librarians find their way through the copyright maze.

Author : Sue Nichols
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811979743

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Traversing Old and New Literacies by Sue Nichols Pdf

This book re-examines the field of New Literacy Studies and promotes a shift away from binary constructions of literacies as 'old' or 'new' and to encourage critical reflection on the part of readers as to the uses of these constructs. First, the book examines the entanglement of pasts, presents and futures in contemporary literacy practices. Second, it considers representations of literacies as actors, having their own power and consequences. Third, it critically examines the place of 'new' and 'old' literacies in a marketplace in which social, economic and political power advantage is contested. The book demonstrates the use of assemblage theory drawing on semiotics, geo-semiotics and Actor Network Theory for analyzing literacies as assemblages. It provides readers with tools of analysis with which to interrogate claims made for the value of literacy, innovations and traditions alike. It also discusses implications for literacy policy, curriculum, teacher education and research.

Author : Cheryl A. Wilson,Maria H. Frawley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429675263

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The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen by Cheryl A. Wilson,Maria H. Frawley Pdf

First published anonymously, as ‘a lady’, Jane Austen is now among the world’s most famous and highly revered authors. The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works, reception, and legacy, with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory and represent foundational and authoritative scholarship as well as new approaches to an author whose works provide seemingly endless inspiration for reinterpretation, adaptation, and appropriation. The Companion provides up-to-date work by an international team of established and emerging Austen scholars and includes exciting chapters not just on Austen in her time but on her ongoing afterlife, whether in the academy and the wider world of her fans or in cinema, new media, and the commercial world. Parts within the volume explore Jane Austen in her time and within the literary canon; the literary critical and theoretical study of her novels, unpublished writing, and her correspondence; and the afterlife of her work as exemplified in film, digital humanities, and new media. In addition, the Companion devotes special attention to teaching Jane Austen.

Author : Paul Crosthwaite,Peter Knight,Nicky Marsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781316515754

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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics by Paul Crosthwaite,Peter Knight,Nicky Marsh Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics.

Author : Jon Mee,Matthew Sangster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108905015

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Institutions of Literature, 1700–1900 by Jon Mee,Matthew Sangster Pdf

This collection provides students and researchers with a new and lively understanding of the role of institutions in the production, reception, and meaning of literature in the period 1700–1900. The period saw a fundamental transition from a patronage system to a marketplace in which institutions played an important mediating role between writers and readers, a shift with consequences that continue to resonate today. Often producers themselves, institutions processed and claimed authority over a variety of cultural domains that never simply tessellated into any unified system. The collection's primary concerns are British and imperial environments, with a comparative German case study, but it offers encouragement for its approaches to be taken up in a variety of other cultural contexts. From the Post Office to museums, from bricks and mortar to less tangible institutions like authorship and genre, this collection opens up a new field for literary studies.

Author : Lara Atkin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030862268

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Writing the South African San by Lara Atkin Pdf

This book offers an innovative new framework for reading British and settler representations of Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. Taking the representation of the Southern African San as its case study, it uses methodologies drawn from critical anthropology, imperial history and literary studies to show the role that literary representations of Indigenous peoples played in popularising the hierarchical view of racial difference. The study identifies an ‘ethnographic poetics’ in which the claims of scientific discourse blend with a consciously literary preference for metaphor and analogy. This created a set of mobile figures that could be disseminated to different reading publics in both Britain and the colonies through a variety of literary genres and textual media. It advances research on race and imperial history by focusing on the importance of literature - from newspapers and periodicals to popular novels - in shaping discourses of national and racial belonging in Britain and the Cape Colony.