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Paperback City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York Book

ISBN: 0231107455

ISBN13: 9780231107457

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

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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...

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