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Racing the street : race, rhetoric, and technology in Metropolitan London, 1840-1900 Cover Image

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Racing the street : race, rhetoric, and technology in Metropolitan London, 1840-1900

Topinka, Robert J. 1984- (author.).

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 intersec.

Record details

ISBN: 9780520975057
ISBN: 0520975057
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 182 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-179) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : a genealogy of race as technology -- Sublime streets, savage city : metonymy, the manifold, and the aesthetics of governance -- Sewers, streets, and seas : types and technologies in imperial London -- Moving congestion on petticoat lane : slums, markets, and immigrant crowds, 1840-1890 -- Typical bodies, photographic technologies : race, the face, and animated daguerreotypes -- Epilogue : catachresis, cliché, and the legacy of race.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter ebooks, viewed October 12, 2020)