The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901
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2016
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1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-55082-8 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-55082-8 (ISBN)
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The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 considers the history of the libraries that the East India Company and Regular Army respectively established for soldiers during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon a wide range of material, including archival sources, official reports, and soldiers’ memoirs and letters, this book explores the motivations of those who were responsible for the setting up and/or operation of the libraries, and examines what they reveal about attitudes to military readers in particular and, more broadly, to working-class readers – and leisure – at this period. Murphy’s study also considers the contents of the libraries, identifying what kinds of works were provided for soldiers and where and how they read them. In so doing, The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 affords another way of thinking about some of the key debates that mark book history today, and illuminates areas of interest to the general reader as well as to literary critics and military and cultural historians.
Sharon Murphy is Lecturer in the School of English at Dublin City University, Ireland, where she is also Director of the Master’s in Children’s Literature programme. She is a graduate of University College Dublin, and of the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She is the author of Maria Edgeworth and Romance (2004), and has also contributed to essay collections and journals.
Introduction.- 1. The East India Company’s Libraries.- 2. The Reading Environment, and Readers, in India.- 3. The Regular Army’s Libraries.- 4. The Reading Environment, and Readers, in the Regular Army.- Conclusion.-
Erscheinungsdatum | 31.03.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 |
Zusatzinfo | XI, 200 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 3796 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Schlagworte | Army Libraries • East India Company • Literacy • military history • Nineteenth Century History |
ISBN-10 | 1-137-55082-1 / 1137550821 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-55082-8 / 9781137550828 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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