City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York by David M. Henkin

City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York

David M. Henkin

224 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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, ...

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