ISBN:
9780520975057
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (196 pages)
Series Statement:
Rhetoric and Public Culture: History, Theory, Critique Ser. v.3
Series Statement:
Rhetoric and public culture: history, theory, critique Volume 3
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.800942109034
Keywords:
Mass media and race relations History 19th century
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City and town life History 19th century
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Technology Social aspects 19th century
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History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Racing the Street traces the history of how race was used as a technology for gathering, assembling, and networking the early cosmopolitan city. Drawing on an archive that ranges from engineering blueprints and parliamentary committee reports to sensationalistic pamphlets and periodical press accounts, Robert J. Topinka conducts an original genealogy of the nineteenth-century London street, demonstrating how race as a technology gathers, sorts, and assembles the teeming particularities of the street into a manageable network. This interdisciplinary study offers a novel approach to the intersections of race, rhetoric, media, technology, and urban government.
Abstract:
Cover -- Racing the Street -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sublime Streets, Savage City -- 2. Sewers, Streets, and Seas -- 3. Moving Congestion on Petticoat Lane -- 4. Typical Bodies, Photographic Technologies -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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