City reading : written words and public spaces in antebellum New York / David M. Henkin.
Henkin, David M.
1998
F128.44 .H46 1998 (Mapit)
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Title City reading : written words and public spaces in antebellum New York / David M. Henkin.
Author Henkin, David M.
ISBN 9780231107457 (paperback)
0231107455 (paperback)
9780231107440
0231107447
Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, ©1998.
Language English
Description xv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Call Number F128.44 .H46 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 974.7/103
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index.
Series Popular cultures, everyday lives.
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1. Introduction: Public Reading, Public Space
2. Brick, Paper, and the Spectacle of Urban Growth: The Rise of a New Metropolis
3. Commercial Impudence and the Dictatorship of the Perpendicular: Signs of the City
4. Word on the Streets: Bills, Boards, and Banners
5. Print in Public, Public in Print: The Rise of the Daily Paper
6. Promiscuous Circulation: The Case of Paper Money
7. Epilogue: Words of War.

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