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How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire.

A different structure for the book might have been preferable, with the third chapter more generatively integrated into (or, alternately, coming after) the later library chapters and the second chapter less consigned to a seemingly quarantined space of its own. Working as a library historian, Colema...

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Published in:Victorian Studies Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 711 - 714
Main Author: Black, Barbara
Format: Article
Published: Indiana University Press Summer2022
Subjects:
British colonies
Libraries
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