City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York
- ISBN-10
- 0231107455
- ISBN-13
- 9780231107457
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 242
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Author
- David M. Henkin
Description
Henkin explores the influential but little-noticed role reading played in New York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. The "ubiquitous urban texts"--from newspapers to paper money, from street signs to handbills--became both indispensable urban guides and apt symbols for a new kind of public life that emerged first in New York.
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