"I Had Ample Opportunity to Notice the City as It then Was": Social and Economic Geographies in New York City, 1783-1830

The essay examines the social and economic geographies of the New York City publishing trade between 1783 and 1830. The paper reveals the contours of social and economic networks formed by tradesmen and merchants on the streets and in the print houses of early New York, and focuses on the possibilities of Geographic Information Systems technology for book history and American studies.