The address book - Deirdre Mask

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An work of popular history starting with a simple question, 'what do street addresses do?'. Deirdre Mask travels the world to work out how we describe where we live and what that says about us. Filled with fascinating people and histories, this entertaining book shows how addresses are about identity, class and race. But most of all they are about power: the power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, and why