1st Edition
How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire
By Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr.
Copyright 2020
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subscription libraries contributed to a core and peripheral criteria of clubbability used by the "select people"—clubbable settler elite—to vet the "proper sort"—clubbable indigenous elite—as they... Read more
Introduction
1. The Rise of the British Colonial Book Trade
2. Colonial Clubs, Clubland and Clubbability
3. Crises in the British Metropolis and Colonies
4. The Penang Library: A Survivor in Paradise
5. The General Library of the Institute of Jamaica: A Road Paved with Good Intentions
6. The Lagos Library: A Book Club by Any Other Name
7. Shifts in the British Metropolis and Colonies
Conclusion
Biography
Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr. is currently serving as the Director of Library Services at Clark State Community College in Springfield, Ohio.
