Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

• Main Author: Tangires, Helen (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2020
• Subjects: History of the Americas
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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...