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Auteur(s) : Swetnam, Susan Hendricks (1950-....)
Titre(s) : Books, bluster, and bounty [Texte imprimé] : local politics in the Intermountain West and Carnegie Library Building Grants, 1898-1920 / Susan H. Swetnam
Publication : Logan (Utah) : Utah State university press, 2012
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-251 p.) : phot., fac-sim. en noir et blanc, cartes ; 24 cm
Comprend : The culture of the intermountain west, 1890-1920 ; The challenging process of applying
for a Carnegie Library Building Grant ; Boom towns : Carnegie libraries and boosterism
; Small mormon towns : Carnegie libraries to protect youth ; Carnegie libraries
in religiously diverse Utah communities ; Women's role in bringing Carnegie libraries
to settled communities ; Oligarchies and Carnegie libraries in transitional towns
; Carnegie libraries in the service of personal power ; Contested libraries.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 230-243. - Notes bibliogr. Index
"Susan Swetnam uses case studies of western applications for Carnegie libraries to
examine how local support was mustered for cultural institutions in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth century interior West. This is a comparative study involving the
entire region between the Rockies and the Cascades/Sierras, including all of Idaho,
Utah, Nevada, and Arizona; western Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado; eastern Oregon
and Washington; and small parts of California and New Mexico. The study addresses
not just the how of the process of establishing Carnegie libraries but, more importantly,
the variable why. Although virtually all citizens and communities in the West who
sought Carnegie libraries were after tangible benefits that were only tangentially
related to books, what they specifically wanted varied in correlation with the diversity
of the communities of the West: "Library proponents in Inland Empire boom towns, for
example, touted Carnegie libraries to their fellow citizens as instruments of economic
advantage over rival communities; citizens in rural LDS communities promoted Carnegie
libraries as a force against the encroaching secular influences they feared threatened
their children; a small cadre of Carnegie library proponents in several of Utah's
largest cities, in stark contrast, actually promoted the projects to their fellow
Gentiles as a corrective to LDS insularity. Economically stable Idaho communities
sought Carnegie libraries to reinforce their self-perceived cultural superiority;
communities in newly American Arizona sought them to counter perceptions of their
towns as 'Hispanic mud villages.' And so on.""--
Sujet(s) : Bibliothèques Carnegie -- États-Unis (ouest) -- 1870-1914
Bibliothèques publiques -- Politique publique -- États-Unis (ouest) -- 1870-1914
Bibliothèques publiques -- Société -- États-Unis (ouest) -- 1870-1914
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0-87421-842-X. - ISBN 978-0-87421-842-8 (rel.) (acid-free paper). - ISBN 0-87421-852-7.
- ISBN 978-0-87421-852-7 (br.). - ISBN 9780874218435 (erroné) (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb427588511
Notice n° :
FRBNF42758851
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