Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America /

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Main Author: Tangires, Helen, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.