Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Helen Tangires.
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- Creating the North American landscape .
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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.