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English
Pages
304

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Subjects
Books and reading, Muncie Public Library, Libraries and community, History, Libraries, united states
Places
Indiana, Muncie
Times
20th century, 19th century
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What Middletown read: print culture in an American small city
2015
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What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City
2015, University of Massachusetts Press
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Table of Contents

"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 1890s 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-296) and index.

Series
Studies in print culture and the history of the book, Studies in print culture and the history of the book

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
028/.909112650909034
Library of Congress
Z1003.3.I6 F45 2015, Z1003.3.I6F45 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 304 pages
Number of pages
304

ID Numbers

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OL27195918M
ISBN 10
1625341407, 1625341415
ISBN 13
9781625341402, 9781625341419
LCCN
2014050133
OCLC/WorldCat
898222274

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