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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 seek to place, for the first time, community libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important – and largely unrecognized – role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions.

027 --- 02 <09> --- 27 <4> --- 027.7 --- 027.7 Bibliotheken voor Hoger Onderwijs en universiteiten --- Bibliotheken voor Hoger Onderwijs en universiteiten --- 02 <09> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- 027 Algemene bibliotheken --- Algemene bibliotheken --- 027 General libraries --- General libraries --- 27 <4> Histoire de l'Eglise--Europa --- 27 <4> Kerkgeschiedenis--Europa --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Europa --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Europa --- Book history --- libraries [institutions] --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Libraries --- Libraries and community --- Libraries and society --- Books and reading --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Society and libraries --- Community and libraries --- Communities --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- History. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation