City Reading Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York

Name: City Reading Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York
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ISBN: 9780231107457

ISBN-10: 0231107455

ISBN-13: 9780231107457

Edition: 1998

Authors: David Henkin

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Cultural historian David Henkin explores the influential but little-noticed role played by reading in New York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. From the opening of the Erie Canal to the end of the Civil War, New York became a metropolis, and demographic, economic, and physical changes erased the old markers of continuity and order. As New York became a crowded city of strangers, everyday encounters with impersonal signs, papers, and bank notes altered people's perceptions of connectedness to the new world they lived in. 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…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/23/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 7.44" wide x 8.94" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

David Henkin is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley.



Introduction: Public Reading


Public Space Brick


Paper, and the Spectacle of Urban Growth: The Rise of a New Metropolis


Commerical Impudence and the Dictatorship of the Perpendicular: Signs of the City Word on the Streets: Bills, Boards, and Banners Print in Public


Public in Print: The Rise of the Daily Paper Promiscuous


Circulation: The Case of Paper Money


Epilogue: Words of War