The circulation of books upward through society led to national libraries

Evidence

As books circled up the social hierarchy, multiplying along the way, a road was paved towards the foundation of the first national libraries. — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 496

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the book’s earlier chapters on royal and noble collecting; the sentence names the causal bridge to a later chapter presumably covering national libraries. — connects to: Libraries functioned as instruments of nationalizing contested border regions — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 739; The tie between library and nation state was a nineteenth-century development — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 643; The antiquarian book market formed within a century. — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 501 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 496

Broader Connections

• Libraries functioned as instruments of nationalizing contested border regions #expands (0.60) — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 739
• The tie between library and nation state was a nineteenth-century development #responds-to (0.50) — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 643