{"product_id":"city-reading-9780231107457","title":"City Reading","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenkin 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA strikingly original account of a new kind of literacy in mid-nineteenth century New York City. -- Konstantin Dierks Journal of the Early Republic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Public Reading, Public Space Brick, Paper, and the Spectacle of Urban Growth: The Rise of a New Metropolis Commerical Impudence and the Dictatorship of the Perpendicular: Signs of the City Word on the Streets: Bills, Boards, and Banners Print in Public, Public in Print: The Rise of the Daily Paper Promiscuous Circulation: The Case of Paper Money Epilogue: Words of War","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400195907927,"sku":"9780231107457","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231107457.jpg?v=1730470029","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/city-reading-9780231107457","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}