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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
By Mask, Deirdre
- ISBN
- 9781250134769
- Publisher
- St. Martin's
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Starred Review on February 1, 2020 | Social Sciences
As Mask reveals in this debut, the concept of a street address is a marvel of social and political engineering. She starts with a journey through the slums of Kolkata, where she sees for herself the toll that the lack of an address takes on people cut off from the bureaucratic state. Physician John Snow traced the cholera epidemic in London based on a map, but for those in unmapped areas, including parts...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
