The Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the PresentHarperPress, 2006 - 1617 pages "This wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market - from lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Page 69
... libraries . In 1784 in Paris there were eighteen libraries open to the public ( including university libraries ) , but many were opened for only a few hours a day or loaned books only to scholars.65 66 The lending library emerged to ...
... libraries . In 1784 in Paris there were eighteen libraries open to the public ( including university libraries ) , but many were opened for only a few hours a day or loaned books only to scholars.65 66 The lending library emerged to ...
Page 71
... libraries . Many cabinets in fact doubled up as bookshops ; one could either buy or borrow . The bourgeois classes too would regularly borrow books , sometimes as many as a hundred at a time , taking them for the summer to their country ...
... libraries . Many cabinets in fact doubled up as bookshops ; one could either buy or borrow . The bourgeois classes too would regularly borrow books , sometimes as many as a hundred at a time , taking them for the summer to their country ...
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... libraries ' stock was avidly read by the middle classes who could not afford Mudie's annual guinea but could pay the shilling demanded by the mechanics ' libraries . - 47 Ever since 1826 the SDUK and Lord Brougham had lobbied Parliament ...
... libraries ' stock was avidly read by the middle classes who could not afford Mudie's annual guinea but could pay the shilling demanded by the mechanics ' libraries . - 47 Ever since 1826 the SDUK and Lord Brougham had lobbied Parliament ...
Contents
The PreConditions Sources of Cultural Expansion | 3 |
Triumphant Languages | 21 |
Publishing | 41 |
Copyright | |
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