Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tangires, Helen, 1956- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johns Hopkins University Press
Colección:Creating the North American landscape.
Materias:
1800-1899
Markets.
Markets > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History of the Americas
History.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422356606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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