City Reading – Written Words & Public Spaces in Antebellum New York H 260 p. 99
内容
Henkin explores the influential but little-noticed role reading played inNew York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. The "ubiquitous urbantexts"--from newspapers to paper money, from street signs tohandbills--became both indispensable urban guides and apt symbols for a newkind of public life that emerged first in New York.
