The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 [electronic resource] / by Sharon Murphy.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781137550835
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/2334
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2016.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XI, 200 p. online resource.
Dizi
War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850, 2634-6702
İçindekiler Notu
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 -- .
Özet, vb.
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. .
Konu
Military history.
Great Britain __ History.
Civilization __ History.
Military History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Cultural History.
Great Britain __ History.
Civilization __ History.
Military History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Cultural History.
