The path to prominence: Nationalism and the Library of Congress, 1835-1897

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dc.contributor.authorPoch, Robert Karlen
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-31T18:56:01Zen
dc.date.available2019-01-31T18:56:01Zen
dc.date.issued1984en
dc.description.abstractBasic components of nineteenth century American nationalism influenced the creation of a national library in the United States. Manifest destiny, mission, nativism, and cultural nationalism provided the impetus to build an institution that preserved, symbolized, and spread national thought and ideals. Five major congressional acts made the Library of Congress the national library. The expansion of the Library's rooms in the Capitol (1865), the transfer of the Smithsonian Institution library (1866), purchase of the Peter Force collection of Americana (1867), the copyright law of 1870, and approval of a new library building (1886), made the Library the center of literary deposit, and the cultural, intellectual representative of the United States.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.extentiv, 98 leavesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/87294en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 11300548en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1984.P623en
dc.subject.lcshNationalism -- United States -- Historyen
dc.titleThe path to prominence: Nationalism and the Library of Congress, 1835-1897en
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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