The Address Book (eBook)

What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power

Deirdre Mask (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-378-9 (ISBN)

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An impressive examination of the origins of street names around the world ... tied together through Mask's absorbing and thoughtful voice

Mask's fascinating study is filled with insights into how addresses affect ordinary people around the world.

Fascinating ... intelligent but thoroughly accessible ... full of surprises

Deirdre Mask reveals how the tales secreted within a street name can be as mesmerizing and mystifying as the city itself-and the people who call that place home.

Deirdre Mask's The Address Book has pretty much everything you want in discursive non-fiction: a fascinating topic, excellent breadth and depth of research across multiple countries and communities, logical compilations of the facts into topic areas and an enthusiastic and chatty narrator. Uncovering what the humble address reveals about us in a multitude of ways - from how we perceive and make sense of our world, through to what constitutes a social legacy, and on to the very timely usefulness of the address in helping us deal with epidemics - Mask has done an excellent job of collating an impressive array of fact, fable and experience.

Deirdre Mask's book was just up my Strasse, alley, avenue and boulevard. A classic history of nomenclature - loaded, complex and absorbing.

Lively and eye-opening ... Deirdre Mask unearths the many layers of meaning hiding just below the surface of the ways we place ourselves and others in our communities.

Illuminating, impressively researched

A must read for urbanists and all those interested in cities and modern economic and social life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.4.2020
• Zusatzinfo: integrated illus.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: a BRIEF history • books about geography • cholera map • danny dorling population 10 billion • guns germs and steel • history of britain in maps • history of world trade in maps • house numbers • James Barr • jhalak prize • Martin Luther King Street • Moving house • reunified Berlin • sapiens • sathnam sanghera empireland • Social Justice • street address • the power of geography tim marshall • The Revenge of Geography • tim marshall prisoners of geography • Tokyo map • where you live • Why Nations Fail • yuval noah harari sapiens • zoran nikolic the atlas of unusual borders
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-378-1 / 1782833781
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-378-9 / 9781782833789