Overview
- Provides an account of the official provision of libraries to both East India Company soldiers in India and Crown forces during the 1800s
- Draws extensively upon archival sources, official reports, memoirs and other writings published by soldiers, contemporary journals, newspapers, and letters
- Shows that the history of the establishment of libraries for soldiers has much in common with that of (free) public libraries,
Part of the book series: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850 (WCS)
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Book Title: The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901
Authors: Sharon Murphy
Series Title: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55083-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71559-6Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55083-5Published: 23 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6699
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6702
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 200
Topics: History of Military, History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History