Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America /

Tangires, Helen, 1956-

Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America / Helen Tangires. - 1 online resource (1 online resource xx, 265 pages) : illustrations. - Creating the North American landscape . - Creating the North American landscape. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index.

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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9781421437439 9780801871337 9781421437446


1800-1899


Markets.
Markets--History--United States--19th century.


United States.


History.
Electronic books.

HF5472.U6 / T36 2003

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