Address Book

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

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Deirdre Mask: Address Book (2020, St. Martin's Press)

320 pages

English language

Published March 14, 2020 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:
978-1-250-13478-3
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Didn’t live up to its promise

This book did make me think much more about addresses. A couple of the wide-ranging chapters made me think and taught me interesting history and made me think (for instance, the invention of numbers in the Austrian Empire and their implications). But others seemed to be stretching it, and treading familiar ground at great length (a brief history of apartheid and how streets named for confederate generals are controversial).

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This was a fun read with an interesting dive into the way that addressing impacts our lives as well as the way that our daily existence is informed by addressing. Honestly, never thought much about addressing at all and this gave a really fun non-fiction read.

Subjects

  • Street names
  • Streets