City reading : written words and public spaces in antebellum New York / David M. Henkin.
Material type:
TextSeries: Popular cultures, everyday livesPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: xv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0231107447
- 9780231107440
- 0231107455
- 9780231107457
- City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- Written communication -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- Books and reading -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- Popular culture -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- Public spaces -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- 974.7103 21
- F128.44 .H46 1998
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index.
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 974.7103 HEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A432819B |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index.
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