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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01th83m2487| Title: | Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850-1920s |
| Contributors: | Dick, Archie L |
| Keywords: | Books and reading -- South Africa -- History -- 19th century. Books and reading -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century. Public libraries -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- History -- 19th century. Public libraries -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century. Reading promotion -- South Africa -- History -- 19th century. Reading promotion -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century. Books and reading. Public libraries -- Social aspects. Reading promotion. |
| Issue Date: | 2020 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge |
| Description: | Abstract: Voluntary societies and government initiatives stimulated the growth of reading communities in South Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century. A system of parliamentary grants to establish public libraries in country towns and villages nurtured a lively reading culture. A condition was that the library should be open free of charge to the general public. This became one more reading space, and others included book societies, reading societies, literary societies, debating societies, mechanics institutes, and mutual improvement societies. This Element explains how reading communities used these spaces to promote cultural and literary development in a unique ethos of improvement, and to raise political awareness in South Africa’s colonial transition to a Union government and racial segregation. Series: Elements in publishing and book culture Variation: Cambridge elements.; Elements in publishing and book culture. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01th83m2487 |
| ISBN: | 1108814700 (paperback) 9781108814706 (paperback) 9781108887076 (PDF ebook) |
| ISSN: | Series ISSN: 2514-8516; |
| Related resource: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/D8804B33AADA76D5416A1989B7706EE0/9781108814706AR.pdf/reading_spaces_in_south_africa_18501920s.pdf |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Publicly Accessible) |
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