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

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

Deirdre Mask

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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