| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. By Helen Tangires. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xx, 265 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-7133-6.)

Helen Tangires's Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America traces the evolution of municipally constructed venues for the exchange of goods as an effort to sustain a well-regulated society. Where William J. Novak's The People's Welfare (1996) may have lacked sufficient evidence that cities actually enforced all the regulations on the books, Tangires shows that officials did indeed police the stalls and monitor exchanges to insure a safe, reasonably priced food supply, though this dedication varied from place to place and over time.

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