Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 /

Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 /

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"This lively, nuanced history of New York City's early public libraries traces their evolution within the political, social, and cultural worlds that supported them. On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its "marble palace for book lovers" on Fifth Avenue and 42nd...

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Main Author: Glynn, Tom, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Public libraries > New York (State) > New York > History > 18th century.
Public libraries > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Subscription libraries > New York (State) > New York > 18th century.
Subscription libraries > New York (State) > New York > 19th century.
Libraries and society > New York (State) > New York > History.
Books and reading > New York (State) > New York > History > 18th century.
Books and reading > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
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  • Introduction: Readers, Libraries, and New York City Before 1911
  • Chapter 1: The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York
  • Chapter 2: Books for a Reformed Republic: The Apprentices' Library in Antebellum New York
  • Chapter 3: The Past in Print: History and the Market at the New-York Historical Society Library
  • Chapter 4: The Biblical Library of the American Bible Society: Evangelicalism and the Evangelical Corporation Chapter 5: Commerce and Culture: Recreation and Self-Improvement in New York's Subscription Libraries
  • Chapter 6: "Men of Leisure and Men of Letters": New York's Public Research Libraries
  • Chapter 7: Scholars and Mechanics: Libraries and Higher Learning in Nineteenth-Century New York
  • Chapter 8: New York's Free Circulating Libraries: The Mission of the Public Library in the Gilded Age
  • Chapter 9: The Founding of the New York Public Library: Public and Private in the Progressive Era
  • Conclusion: New York's Public Libraries and the Elusive Reading Publics
  • Works Cited
  • Notes.

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