Racing the street : race, rhetoric, and technology in metropolitan London, 1840-1900 /
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 account...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Rhetoric & public culture : history, theory, critique ;
volume 3. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520343603 0520343603 9780520343610 0520343611 |