City reading: written words and public spaces in antebellum new york
Auteur :
Henkin, David
Éditeur :
Columbia University Press
ISBN :
9780231107457
Date de publication :
23 déc. 1998
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.