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03990aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 3739F10CEF6911EBB8061DD04AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210728010108 008 200419t20212020nyuab e b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 125013479X 020 $a 9781250134790 035 $a (OCoLC)1151066853 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d YDXIT $d GSU $d IUK $d SILO 050 4 $a HE336.S77 $b M37 2021 082 04 $a 388.1 $2 23 100 1 $a Mask, Deirdre, $e author. 245 14 $a The address book : $b what street addresses reveal about identity, race, wealth, and power / $c Deirdre Mask. 250 $a First St. Martin's Griffin edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Griffin, $c 2021. 300 $a x, 326 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "Portions of this book originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The New York Times"--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $g Conclusion: $t The future : are street addresses doomed? $t Kolkata : how can street addresses transform the slums? -- $t Haiti : could street addresses stop an epidemic? -- $t Rome : how did the ancient Romans navigate? -- $t London : where do street names come from? -- $t Vienna : what can house numbers teach us about power? -- $t Philadelphia : why do Americans love numbered streets? -- $t Korea and Japan : must streets be named? -- $t Iran : why do street names follow revolutions? -- $t Berlin : what do Nazi street names tell us about VergangenheitsbewaÌltigung? -- $t Hollywood, Florida : why can't Americans stop arguing about Confederate street names? -- $t St. Louis : what do Martin Luther King Jr. Streets reveal about race in America? -- $t South Africa : who belongs on South Africa's street signs? -- $t Manhattan : how much is a street name worth? -- $t Homelessness : how do you live without an address? -- $g Conclusion: $t The future : are street addresses doomed? 520 $a "An exuberant work of popular history: the story of how streets got their names and houses their numbers, and why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or enforce power. When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won't get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. Addresses arose out of a grand Enlightenment project to name and number the streets, but they are also a way for people to be identified and tracked by those in power. As Deirdre Mask explains, the practice of numbering houses was popularized in eighteenth-century Vienna by Maria Theresa, leader of the Hapsburg Empire, to tax her subjects and draft them into her military. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class, causing them to be a shorthand for snobbery or discrimination. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany, and why numbered streets dominate in America but not in Europe. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata, on the streets of London, or in post-earthquake Haiti. Filled with fascinating people and histories, The Address Book illuminates the complex and sometimes hidden stories behind street names and their power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn't--and why"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Street addresses $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Street names $x Social aspects. 941 $a 3 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012014904.0 952 $l GNPB062 $d 20220308010808.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20210728010952.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3739F10CEF6911EBB8061DD04AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b UINInitiate Another SILO Locator Search