Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Tables xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Abbreviations xv
7. Introduction: The Signifi cance of Common Readers in South Africa 1
8. 1. Early Readers at the Cape, 1658–1800 12
9. 2. Literacy, Class, and Regulating Reading, 1800–1850 30
10. 3. The Women’s Building of Nations: History Books in the Early Twentieth Century 54
11. 4. Books for Troops in the Second World War 69
12. 5. Politics and the Libraries, Part One: Book Theft, Intellectual Fraud, and Book Burning, 1950–1971 83
13. 6. Politics and the Libraries, Part Two: Dissident Readers and Librarians in the 1980s Townships 100
14. 7. Reading in Exile after Soweto, 1978–1992 112
15. 8. Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books 124
16. Conclusion: Revealing the Hidden Books and Hidden Readers 139
17. Notes 143
18. Index 191