Author: Raffles Museum and LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
A General Catalogue of the Bound Volumes, in the Raffles Library, Singapore
Author: Raffles Museum and LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
Author: Lara AtkinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 303020426X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new imperial history’ paradigms that privilege imbricated colonial and metropolitan ‘intercultures’, it looks at the neglected role of public libraries in shaping a programme of Anglophone civic education, scientific knowledge creation, and modernisation in the British southern hemisphere. The book’s six chapters analyse institutional models and precedents, reading publics and types, book holdings and catalogues, and regional scientific networks in order to demonstrate the significance of these libraries for the construction of colonial identity, citizenship, and national self-government as well as charting their influence in shaping perceptions of social class, gender, and race. Using primary source material from the recently completed ‘Book Catalogues of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere’ digital archive, the book argues that public libraries played a formative role in colonial public discourse, contributing to broader debates on imperial citizenship and nation-statehood across different geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
Author: Alice LohPublisher: Singapore Resource Library National Library Board
ISBN:
Category : Colonial administrators
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Bibliography of the Far Eastern Tropics
Author: Taiwan Sōtokufu Taihoku Kōtō Shōgyō GakkōPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Indies
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Directory of Libraries in Malaysia
Author: Publisher: Kuala Lampur : University of Malaya Library
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Sir Stamford Raffles And Some Of His Friends And Contemporaries: A Memoir Of The Founder Of Singapore
Author: John BastinPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9813277688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This book — written by Dr John Bastin, a leading authority on the study of Sir Stamford Raffles — offers an alternative biographical account of Raffles, as seen through his relationship with some of his closest friends and contemporaries.The people featured include the naturalists Joseph Arnold, Thomas Horsfield and Nathaniel Wallich, who received support from Raffles in carrying on their scientific research, and the orientalist John Leyden, who influenced Raffles's study of Malay and Malay customs.Examining Raffles and his social circle presents an original perspective of the man and of the colonial world in which he lived, and his correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues reflects his attitude and opinions on a range of issues, including his desire to extend the benefits of education. The book is a highly original contribution to the study of Raffles in the bicentenary year of his founding of Singapore.
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Malayan Year Book
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federated Malay States
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Vols. for 1935-39 contain information for 1934-38.