Racing the street: race, rhetoric, and technology in metropolitan London, 1840-1900
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1120
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- University of California Press
- ISBN
- 9780520343610
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Drawing on the most extensive engagement with Henry Mayhew’s four-volume work on the London poor ever published, the book traces the history of how race was used as a technology for gathering, assembling, and networking nineteenth-century London. It assembles a large archive that ranges from engineering blueprints and parliamentary committee reports to sensationalistic pamphlets and periodical press accounts. The book offers an original genealogy of the nineteenth-century London street, combining historical inquiry with media and rhetorical theory to demonstrate how race as a technology gathers, sorts, and assembles the teeming particularities of the street into a manageable network
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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