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Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries founded before 1825: Useful knowledge and agreeable entertainment - Tapa dura

Manley, K. A.

 
9781846827174: Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries founded before 1825: Useful knowledge and agreeable entertainment
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ISBN 10: 1846827175 ISBN 13: 9781846827174
Editorial: Four Courts Press Ltd, 2018

Sinopsis

"Reading is for the improvement of the understanding," wrote John Locke, and this sentiment fostered the idea of 'mutual improvement' in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It underpinned the spread of rural workers' reading societies in Ulster and urban middle-class private subscription libraries among the Anglo-Irish and educated Catholics, paralleled by the growth of commercial circulating libraries that concentrated on light fiction. But libraries could be controversial. In 1798, libraries were destroyed by government troops-knowledge in its printed form was considered dangerous by some, while the rise of Protestant tract societies encouraged Catholic chapel and other local religious libraries for the poorer classes. The crucial idea behind all of these libraries was that of borrowing books held in common, with the borrower having freedom of choice over what was borrowed. Private libraries too, demonstrate how they related to ideas of 'self-help' and reveal networks of book borrowing, as in the case of Maria Edgeworth. This book explains the rise of these libraries in the context of their times, with a substantial appendix that identifies them by name, address, date and type, with bibliographical and, where necessary, archival references. [Subject: History, Irish Studies, 18th C. Studies, 19th C. Studies, History of Libraries]

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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Editorial
Four Courts Press Ltd
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1846827175
ISBN 13 
9781846827174
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Tapa dura
Número de páginas
248
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