Tangires, Helen, 1956-

Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America / Helen Tangires. - 1 online resource (292 pages): illustrations - Creating the North American landscape . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License. Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 2003.

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


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