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Before the Public Library: Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 by

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Before the Public Library: Reading, Community and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850

418 pages hardcover

1 edition

nonfiction history
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Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines see...

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