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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 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"

Subscription libraries --- Libraries, Subscription --- Membership libraries --- Libraries --- Colonies --- History --- Penang Library --- Prince of Wales Library --- History. --- Great Britain --- Social life and customs. --- Book history --- History of civilization --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1800-1999

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Documentation and information --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Germany --- 027.9 --- 028 --- 027 <43> --- 017.1 <43> --- Rental libraries --- -Libraries, Subscription --- -Books and reading --- -Subscription libraries --- Membership libraries --- Libraries --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Libraries, Rental --- Leeskabinetten --- Lezen. Lectuur --- Algemene bibliotheken--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- Catalogi van institutionele bibliotheken--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- History --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Books and reading --- Subscription libraries --- History. --- -Leeskabinetten --- 017.1 <43> Catalogi van institutionele bibliotheken--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- 027 <43> Algemene bibliotheken--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- 028 Lezen. Lectuur --- 027.9 Leeskabinetten --- -028 Lezen. Lectuur --- Libraries, Subscription --- Bibliotheques allemandes --- Allemagne --- Histoire --- Vie intellectuelle --- 18e-20e siecles

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British literature underwent profound changes in the period 1900-1940. What role did audiences and channels of book distribution play in this? In this wide-ranging collection, the influence of publishers, distributors, librarians and readers come to the foreground to open up new perspectives on literature and print culture. Rooted in original archival research, chapters include studies of the engagement of canonical writers and bestsellers with the literary marketplace; the influence of international and mobile audiences; publishing practices involving genre, promotion, and censorship; and the significance of spaces of reading including bookshops, circulating libraries and on-board passenger ships. Through a series of detailed case-studies that focus on under-explored aspects of distribution and readership, the contributors open up new perspectives on literature and the British book trade.

Book industries and trade --- English literature --- Books --- Books and reading --- Subscription libraries --- Censorship --- Authors and publishers --- Authors and readers --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- Author and publisher --- Publishers and authors --- Publishing contracts --- Contracts --- Book proposals --- Copyright --- Literary agents --- Book censorship --- Literature and morals --- Anticensorship activists --- Challenged books --- Expurgated books --- Intellectual freedom --- Prohibited books --- Libraries, Subscription --- Membership libraries --- Libraries --- History --- Publishing --- Marketing --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Law and legislation --- E-books