City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York (Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives)

by David Henkin (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  1999

  $31.96

  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.