Author: Deirdre Mask
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250134781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards "An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review 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. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we also see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata and on the streets of London. 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.
The Address Book
Author: Deirdre Mask
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250134781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards "An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review 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. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we also see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata and on the streets of London. 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.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250134781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards "An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review 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. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we also see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata and on the streets of London. 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.
Everyman His Own Historian
Author: Carl Lotus Becker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Historians and Historical Societies
Author: Charles Francis Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fenway (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fenway (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century
Author: George Peabody Gooch
Publisher:
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Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
History and Historians in America
Author: Thomas Frederick Tout
Publisher: London : Royal Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Publisher: London : Royal Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty
Author: Benjamin H. Irvin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199314594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty examines the material artifacts, festivities, and rituals by which Congress endeavored not only to assert its political legitimacy and to bolster the war effort, but ultimately to glorify the United States and to win the allegiance of the American people. But fact, as Benjamin H. Irvin demonstrates, the "people out of doors"--including the working poor, women, loyalists, Native Americans and others not represented in Congress--vigorously contested the trappings of nationhood into which Congress had enfolded them.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199314594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty examines the material artifacts, festivities, and rituals by which Congress endeavored not only to assert its political legitimacy and to bolster the war effort, but ultimately to glorify the United States and to win the allegiance of the American people. But fact, as Benjamin H. Irvin demonstrates, the "people out of doors"--including the working poor, women, loyalists, Native Americans and others not represented in Congress--vigorously contested the trappings of nationhood into which Congress had enfolded them.
Trade and Taboo
Author: Sarah Bond
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130080
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Applies new methodological approaches to the study of ancient history
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130080
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Applies new methodological approaches to the study of ancient history
U.S. History
Author: P. Scott Corbett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781738998432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781738998432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
American Military Heritage
Author: William W. Hartzog
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Historians and Their Craft, a Study of the Presidential Addresses of the American Historical Association, 1884-1945, by Herman Ausubel, ... [A Dissertation.].
Author: Herman Ausubel
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description