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How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subscription libraries contributed to a core and peripheral criteria of clubbability used by the select peopleclubbable settler eliteto vet the proper sortclubbable indigenous eliteas they culturally, economically and socially navigated their way towards membership in colonial clubland. As a microcosm for British-controlled areas of the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, this book assesses the history, membership, growth and collection development of three colonial subscription librariesthe Penang Library in Malaysia, the General Library of the Institute of Jamaica and the Lagos Library in Nigeriaduring the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This work also examines the places these libraries occupied within the lives of their subscribers, and how the British Council reorganized these colonial subscription libraries to ensure their survival and the survival of colonial clubland in a post-colonial world. This book is designed to accommodate historians of Britain and its empire who are unfamiliar with library history, library historians who are unfamiliar with British history, and book historians who are unfamiliar with both topics.

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How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire
How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subscription libraries contributed to the core and peripheral criteria of clubbability used by the select people clubbable settler elite to vet the proper sort clubbable indigenous elite as they culturally, economically and socially navigated their way towards membership in colonial clubland. As a microcosm for British-controlled areas of the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, this book assesses the history, membership, growth and collection development of three colonial subscription libraries the Penang Library in Malaysia, the General Library of the Institute of Jamaica and the Lagos Library in Nigeria during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This work also examines the places these libraries occupied within the lives of their subscribers, and how the British Council reorganized these colonial subscription libraries to ensure their survival and the survival of colonial clubland in a post-colonial world. This book is designed to accommodate historians of Britain and its empire who are unfamiliar with library history, library historians who are unfamiliar with British history, and book historians who are unfamiliar with both topics.
Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr. is currently serving as the Director of Library Services at Clark State Community College in Springfield, Ohio.
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The right of Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr. to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Coleman, Sterling Joseph, Jr., 1969 author.
Title: How books, reading and subscription libraries defined colonial
clubland in the British empire / Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr.
Description: New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge
studies in cultural history; 86 | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020011179 (print) | LCCN 2020011180 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367434724 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003003519
(ebook) | ISBN 9781000080841 (adobe pdf) | ISBN
9781000080858 (mobi) | ISBN 9781000080865 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Subscription librariesGreat BritainColonies
History19th century. | Subscription librariesGreat Britain
ColoniesHistory20th century. | Penang LibraryHistory. |
Institute of Jamaica. LibraryHistory. | Lagos LibraryHistory. |
Book industries and tradeGreat BritainColoniesHistory. |
Books and readingGreat BritainColoniesHistory. |
Great BritainColoniesSocial life and customs.
Classification: LCC Z675.S8 C65 2020 (print) | LCC Z675.S8
(ebook) | DDC 027/.20941dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020011179
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020011180
ISBN: 978-0-367-43472-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-00351-9 (ebk)
Typeset in Sabon
by Apex CoVantage, LLC
For The University of Michigan
For training me to become a scholar.
For Southern University at New Orleans
For training me to become an educator.
For Louisiana State University
For training me to become a librarian.
For Florida State University
For training me to become an historian.
And for Clark State Community College
For giving me the opportunity to put all of my training to good use.
Contents
Guide
AGAction Group
ALAAmerican Library Association
CCNYCarnegie Corporation of New York
CDA1929 Colonial Development Act 1929
CDACColonial Development Advisory Committee
CDFColonial Development Fund
CDWA1940 Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1940
CDWA1945 Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1945
CDWACColonial Development and Welfare Advisory Committee
CPMCommunist Party of Malaysia
KMMKesatuan Melayu Muda (Young Malay Union)
MCAMalaysian Chinese Association
MICMalayan Indian Congress
MPMember of Parliament
MPAJAMalayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army
NCNCNational Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons
NNDPNigerians National Democratic Party
NPCNorthern Peoples Congress
NYMNigerian Youth Movement
OICOffice of International Information and Cultural Affairs
OIEOffice of International Information and Educational Exchange
OSSOffice of Strategic Services
OWIOffice of War Information
PNPPeoples National Party
TUCTrade Union Congress
UMNOUnited Malays National Organization
USIAUnited States Information Agency
USISUnited States Information Service
In her groundbreaking article, Britishness, Clubbability and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India, Mrinalini Sinha argued the imperial nature of the club as an institution in the colonial public sphere and the notion of clubbability resided within a Eurocentric logic which valued the settler as uniquely clubbable and recognized the potential clubbability of the indigenous.
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