City Reading

City Reading PDF

Author: David M. Henkin

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780231107440

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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.