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Empire of the mind: Subscription libraries, literacy & acculturation in the colonies of the British Empire.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Empire of the mind: Subscription libraries, literacy & acculturation in the colonies of the British Empire./
Author:	Coleman, Sterling Joseph, Jr.
Description:	228 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0659.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-02A.
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3348483
ISBN:	9781109044188

Empire of the mind: Subscription libraries, literacy & acculturation in the colonies of the British Empire.
Coleman, Sterling Joseph, Jr.

Empire of the mind: Subscription libraries, literacy & acculturation in the colonies of the British Empire. - 228 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0659.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 2008.

ISBN: 9781109044188Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

Empire of the mind: Subscription libraries, literacy & acculturation in the colonies of the British Empire.
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520 $a In his ground-breaking Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson declared that the census, map and museum shaped the manner in which the colony imagined its dominion, the nature of the colonized, the geography of the colony and the ancestral right of the colonizer to rule. 1 The author's analysis not only highlighted the impact of print-culture within a colonial setting but also created an opportunity to explore how other information gathering institutions may have contributed to the social and cultural development of both the metropolis and the colony. This dissertation is designed to build upon Anderson's work through an analysis of the social and cultural roles subscription libraries played throughout the colonies of the British Empire.2 By analyzing British government documents, library annual reports and a variety of secondary sources, this study will assess the history, growth and development of subscription librarianship in the colonies of Jamaica, Malaysia and Nigeria as a microcosm for British-controlled areas of the Caribbean, Asia and Africa respectively. This dissertation will argue that colonial subscription library development was a key component of "Neo-Macaulayism" which advocated the cultural enfranchisement and intellectual development of the indigenous elite to maintain a fully functioning colonial government bureaucracy against the threats of disloyalty and illiteracy.
520 $a 1Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. (London: Verso, 1991), 163-164. 2For the purpose of this study, the term 'subscription library' will be defined as follows: A type of library that developed in Britain during the second half of the 18th century, whose members paid annual dues or a subscription fee in exchange for the privilege of using library materials and services. And for the purpose of this study, the term 'public library' will be defined as follows: A library or library system that provides unrestricted access to library resources and services free of charge to all the residents of a given community, district or geographic region, supported wholly or in part by public funds. Both definitions can be found in Joan M. Reitz, ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 2002. Online. Available from http://vax.wcsu.edu/library/odlis.html. Accessed May 3, 2008.
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