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

David Henkin

Introduction: 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

Series

• Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives

About the Author

David Henkin is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley.

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