Author : David M. Henkin
Release : 1998
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 440/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis City Reading by : David M. Henkin
Download or read book City Reading written by David M. Henkin. This book was released on 1998. 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.