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Deirdre Mask: The address book : what street addresses reveal about identity, race, wealth, and power (Hardcover, 2020, St. Martin's Press)

An exuberant work of popular history: the story of how streets got their names and …

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).