Public markets and civic culture in nineteenth-century America
By: Helen Tangires.
Series: Creating the North American landscape
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Markets -- United States -- History -- 19th century; City and town life -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Community development -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Description: Examines the role of the public market, social and architectural, as a key site in the development of civic culture in America in the nineteenth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: I: Building the common ground; title: Market laws in the early republic; title: The market house; title: Marketplace culture; title: II: Cracks in the market walls; title: The legalizing of private meat shops in Antebellum New York; title: Market house company mania in Philadelphia; title: The landscape of deregulation; title: III: Regaining a share of the marketplace; title: Consumer protection and the new moral economy; title: Rebirth of the municipal market.