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 accoun...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Topinka, Robert J., 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Series:Rhetoric and public culture (Oakland, Calif.) ; 3.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Mass media and race relations > England > London > History > 19th century.
City and town life > England > London > History > 19th century.
Technology > Social aspects > England > London > History > 19th century.
Médias et relations raciales > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Vie urbaine > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric.
City and town life.
Mass media and race relations.
Technology > Social aspects.
England > London.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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