Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America / Helen Tangires.

Originally published in 2003. In Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America Helen Tangires examines the role of the public marketplace—social and architectural—as a key site in the development of civic culture in America. More than simply places for buying and selling food, Tangi...

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Tangires, Helen, 1956-
Language:English
Series:Creating the North American landscape.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource (xx, 265 pages) :); illustrations.
Notes:
  • Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 2003
  • Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
  • The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License
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Table of Contents:
  • I: Building the common ground
  • Market laws in the early republic
  • The market house
  • Marketplace culture
  • II: Cracks in the market walls
  • The legalizing of private meat shops in Antebellum New York
  • Market house company mania in Philadelphia
  • The landscape of deregulation
  • III: Regaining a share of the marketplace
  • Consumer protection and the new moral economy
  • Rebirth of the municipal market.

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