City Reading Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York |
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Author:
| Henkin, David |
Series title: | Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-231-10745-7 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1998 |
Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $34.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.