Description: Further DetailsTitle: City ReadingCondition: NewSubtitle: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New YorkISBN-10: 0231107447EAN: 9780231107440ISBN: 9780231107440Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/23/1998Description: 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 notes altered people's perceptions of connectedness to the new world they lived in. 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. City Reading focuses on four principal categories of public reading: street signs and store signs; handbills and trade cards; newspapers; and paper money.Drawing on a wealth of visual sources and written texts that document the changing cityscape--including novels, diaries, newspapers, municipal guides, and government records--Henkin shows that public acts of reading (to a much greater extent than private, solitary reading) determined how New Yorkers of all backgrounds came to define themselves and their urban community.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: David HenkinGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, HistoryBook Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday LivesRelease Year: 1998 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: City Reading
Title: City Reading
Subtitle: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York
ISBN-10: 0231107447
EAN: 9780231107440
ISBN: 9780231107440
Release Date: 12/23/1998
Release Year: 1998
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: City Reading : Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Communication Studies, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Popular Culture, American / General, Customs & Traditions, Books & Reading, Sociology / Urban
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 1998
Item Weight: 20.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: David Henkin
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives Ser.
Format: Hardcover
