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Table of Contents: “…The New York Society Library : books, authority, and publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York -- Books for a reformed Republic : The Apprentices' Library in antebellum New York -- The past in print : history and the market at the New-York Historical Society Library -- The Biblical Library of the American Bible Society : Evangelicalism and the Evangelical Corporation -- Commerce and culture : recreation and self-improvement in New York's Subscription Libraries -- "Men of leisure and men of letters": New York's Public Research Libraries -- Scholars and mechanics : libraries and higher learning in nineteenth-century New York -- New York's Free Circulating Libraries : the mission of the public library in the gilded age -- The founding of the New York Public Library : public and private in the progressive era -- Afterword: New York's Public Libraries and the elusive reading publics.…”
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