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The Australian museum library - its formation, function and scientific contribution, 1836–1917
… Wales, has long been discussed but the role of natural history museum libraries in Australia is little mentioned. Similarly, the ways in which museum library activity signalled the shift of influence, in the nineteenth century, from the gentleman scientist to the university–trained …
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Contemporary History and Its Publics in Italy, 1640-1740
This dissertation investigates the writing of contemporary history in Italy and the emergence of a reading public during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In accordance with humanist conventions, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century historians were often retired statesmen, who …