Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power

Mask, Deirdre
Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power

Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power

Mask, Deirdre

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An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful.

Starting with a simple question, 'what do street addresses do?', Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work out how we describe where we live and what that says about us. From the chronological numbers of Tokyo to the naming of Bobby Sands Street in Iran, she explores how our address - or lack of one - expresses our politics, culture and technology. It affects our health and wealth, and it can even affect the working of our brains.

From Ancient Rome to Kolkata today, from cholera epidemics to tax hungry monarchs, Mask discovers the different ways street names are created, celebrated, and in some cases, banned. Filled with fascinating people and histories, this incisive, entertaining book shows how addresses are about identity, class and race. But most of all they are about power: the power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn't, and why.

By:   Mask, Deirdre
Manufacturer:   Profile Books Ltd
Product Code:  

9781781259009


Release Date:   19 May 2020
Availability:   In stock
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An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful.

Starting with a simple question, 'what do street addresses do?', Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work out how we describe where we live and what that says about us. From the chronological numbers of Tokyo to the naming of Bobby Sands Street in Iran, she explores how our address - or lack of one - expresses our politics, culture and technology. It affects our health and wealth, and it can even affect the working of our brains.

From Ancient Rome to Kolkata today, from cholera epidemics to tax hungry monarchs, Mask discovers the different ways street names are created, celebrated, and in some cases, banned. Filled with fascinating people and histories, this incisive, entertaining book shows how addresses are about identity, class and race. But most of all they are about power: the power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn't, and why.

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By:   Mask, Deirdre
Manufacturer:   Profile Books Ltd
Product Code:  

9781781259009


Release Date:   19 May 2020
Availability:   In stock
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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