City Reading

City Reading
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 0231107447
ISBN-13 : 9780231107440
Rating : 4/5 (440 Downloads)

Book Synopsis City Reading by : David M. Henkin

Download or read book City Reading written by David M. Henkin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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