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Genre/Form: | History Pictorial works Ouvrages illustrés |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Anton Tantner; Anthony Mathews |
ISBN: | 9781780235189 1780235186 |
OCLC Number: | 926664320 |
Description: | 200 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 21 cm |
Responsibility: | Anton Tantner ; translated by Anthony Mathews. |
Abstract:
Anton Tantner's engaging, intriguingly quirky book is an illustrated chronicle of the house number, from its introduction in European towns in the eighteenth century through the spread of the numbering system in the nineteenth century to its global adoption today.
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'Sherlock Holmes famously observed that small details are often valuable clues to something larger. In similar fashion Anton Tantner, a historical sleuth, shows that the history of house numbers sheds light on the Enlightenment as well as on the rise of the surveillance state.' - Peter Burke, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge Read more...

