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How Books Reading And Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland In The British Empire
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Book Synopsis How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire by : Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr.
Download or read book How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire written by Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 culturally, economically and socially navigated their way towards membership in colonial clubland. As a microcosm for British-controlled areas of the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, this book assesses the history, membership, growth and collection development of three colonial subscription libraries—the Penang Library in Malaysia, the General Library of the Institute of Jamaica and the Lagos Library in Nigeria—during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This work also examines the places these libraries occupied within the lives of their subscribers, and how the British Council reorganized these colonial subscription libraries to ensure their survival and the survival of colonial clubland in a post-colonial world. This book is designed to accommodate historians of Britain and its empire who are unfamiliar with library history, library historians who are unfamiliar with British history, and book historians who are unfamiliar with both topics.
Book Synopsis Russia’s French Connection by : Adam Coker
Download or read book Russia’s French Connection written by Adam Coker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is generally acknowledged that Russia’s culture has been influenced by France, the present study goes beyond the Francophile preferences of the noble elite and examines Russian society more broadly, exploring those elements of French cultural influence that are still relevant today. This is done through an historical analysis of French loanwords in the Russian language from the time of Peter the Great to the present. The result of this lexical analysis and subsequent study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century archival, periodical, and memoir material is to empirically link Russia’s present culture to two major Franco-Russian events: the wave of immigration to Russia following the French Revolution and Russia’s war with Napoleon. This is primarily a book for those interested in European history, particularly imperial Russia, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars. The study of Russian officer memoirs includes original campaign maps, which may be of interest to military historians. The analysis of periodical literature will likewise be a resource for those studying the history of printing, publishing, and journalism in Russia. The book’s interdisciplinary nature, however, broadens its relevance to linguists, cultural historians, and those in the emerging field of Immigration Studies.
Book Synopsis Transatlantic Encounters in History of Education by : Fanny Isensee
Download or read book Transatlantic Encounters in History of Education written by Fanny Isensee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last twenty years, transnational perspectives have gained momentum in the field of historical-educational research. Scholars have made substantial efforts to rethink nation-based historiographies by reconstructing and reinterpreting the cross-border encounters and intertwined processes that have turned the history of education into a transnational enterprise. A closer look at specific transnational spaces furthers a better understanding of these processes. Against this backdrop, the book offers case studies focusing on transatlantic encounters with special regard to the manifold entanglements between Germany and the United States of America that represent one of the most complex, dynamic, and vivid educational spaces between the eighteenth and twentieth century. Drawing on excellent source material, each contribution examines interaction processes as the genuine transformative moment within any cross-border transfer, and investigates exchanges of concepts, institutions, and materials. Under this premise, the book draws attention to shifting trajectories in the German-American history of education that can be identified by focusing on long-lasting transnational entanglements. By offering a wide range of research approaches, the publication furthermore contributes innovative methodological thoughts to transnational histories of education that go beyond the German-American context and will interest students, emerging researchers, and experts of history of education.
Book Synopsis The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age by : Nigel A. Raab
Download or read book The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age written by Nigel A. Raab and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most trusted theories of humanists. Over the past two generations, humanists have come to take basic postmodern theories for granted whether on language, knowledge or time. Yet Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and similar philosophers developed their ideas when the impact of this digital world could barely be imagined. The digital world, built on algorithms and massive amounts of data, operates on radically different principles. This volume analyzes these differences, demonstrating where an aging postmodernism cannot keep pace with today’s technologies. The book first introduces the major influence postmodern had on global thought before turning to algorithms, digital space, digital time, data visuals and the concept to digital forgeries. By taking a closer look at these themes, it establishes a platform to create more robust humanist theories for the third millennium. This book will appeal to graduate students and established scholars in the Digital Humanities who are looking for diverse and energetic theoretical approaches that can truly come to terms with the digital world.
Book Synopsis A Nation of Readers by : David Allan
Download or read book A Nation of Readers written by David Allan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading was one of Georgian England's defining obsessions. This book argues that the proliferation of library facilities greatly extended the quantity and diversity of texts available. It suggests that the resulting circulation of books on a previously unimaginable scale made possible the creation of a substantial and broadly based reading public.
Book Synopsis The British Empire by : S. E. Stockwell
Download or read book The British Empire written by S. E. Stockwell and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited work adopts a distinctive thematic approach to the history of British imperialism from the 18th to the 20th century. Each contributor offers a personal assessment of the topic at hand, and examines key interpretive debates among historians.
Book Synopsis Travel Writing and Empire by : Steven H. Clark
Download or read book Travel Writing and Empire written by Steven H. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writing has become central to postcolonial studies and literary criticism. This is a comprehensive introduction to the genre, to its dynamics of power and representation, and the degree to which it has promoted ideologies of empire. It combines evaluations of the main models of analysis (new historicism, travelling theory and postcolonial studies) with specific studies showing how travel writing has been linked with a history of violent incursion from Columbus' reports from the New World onwards. The contributors discuss the travel writing of people such as Bruce Chatwin, Bill Bryson, Redmond O'Hanlon and Jonathan Raban. They resist the temptation to think in terms of a simple monolithic Eurocentrism and offer readings of texts produced before, during and after periods of imperial ascendency.
Download or read book The New Statesman and Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Statesman and Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 1776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coptology written by Søren Giversen and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a compilation of 28 contributions, predominantly in German, but also in English and French, and is dedicated to R. Kasser. To honour his 65th birthday, colleages and pupils have chosen 5 themes on coptology. The first is concerned with coptic art, archaeology and inscriptions. The second chapter shows some aspects of theology and church history. The third theme is concerned with the history of religions. The book also includes 6 articles on various linguistic aspects of coptic. A last chapter deals with some coptic manuscripts and editions in the field of theology and history of religions.
Download or read book Romantik written by Lis Møller and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Romantik. Journal for the Study of Romanticisms' is a multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of romantic-era cultural productions and concepts. The journal promotes innovative research across disciplinary borders. It aims to advance new historical discoveries, forward-looking theoretical insights and cutting-edge methodological approaches. The articles range over the full variety of cultural practices, including the written word, visual arts, history, philosophy, religion, and theatre during the romantic period (c. 1780-1840). But contributions to the discussion of pre- or post-romantic representations are also welcome. Since the romantic era was characterized by an emphasis on the vernacular, the title of journal has been chosen to reflect the Germanic root of the word. But the journal is interested in all European romanticisms - and not least the connections and disconnections between them - hence, the use of the plural in the subtitle.Romantik is a peer-reviewed journal supported by the Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOP-HS).
