| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 182 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Rhetoric & public culture: history, theory, critique ; 3
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Rhetoric and public culture (Oakland, Calif.) ; 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-179) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mass media and race relations -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
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Mass media and race relations. |
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England -- London. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
City and town life -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
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Technology -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
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Technology -- Social aspects. |
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City and town life. |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Topinka, Robert J., 1984- Racing the street. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520343603 (DLC) 2020008839 (OCoLC)1142898704 |
| ISBN |
0520975057 (electronic book) |
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9780520975057 (electronic book) |
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9780520343603 hardcover |
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0520343603 hardcover |
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9780520343610 paperback |
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0520343611 paperback |
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