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Felsenstein Frank |
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Titolo |
What Middletown read : print culture in an American small city / / Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly |
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Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Books and reading - Indiana - Muncie - History - 19th century |
Books and reading - Indiana - Muncie - History - 20th century |
Libraries and community - Indiana - Muncie - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"Now we are a city" : portrait of a boomtown -- "A magnificent array of books" : the origins and development of the Muncie Public Library -- Cosmopolitan trends : print culture and the public library in 1890's Muncie -- Borrowing patterns : the Muncie Public Library and its patrons -- "Bread sweet as honey" : reading, education, and the public library -- Reading and reform : the role of fiction in the civic imagination of Muncie's activist women -- Schoolboys and social butterflies : profiling Middletown readers -- Epilogue. Looking backward, looking forward -- Appendix. The What Middletown read database. |
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