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Enterprise and Society 2005 6(3):529-531; doi:10.1093/es/khi076
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Helen Tangires. Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 263 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7133-6, $45.00 (cloth).

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Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America explores and extols the role of municipally owned markets in supplying food to the nation’s urban centers. Helen Tangires draws data and examples from around the country, but New York and Philadelphia provide her core case studies. Tangires traces her interest in public markets to childhood experiences with a family lunch wagon in Baltimore, which doubtless contributes to the enthusiastic warmth she brings to this study. It may also encourage some sentimentality . . . [Full Text of this Article]

David Grimsted

University of Maryland, College Park


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