The making of home : the 500-year story of how our houses became our homes / Judith Flanders.
Flanders, Judith, author.
2015
GT170 .F53 2015 (Mapit)
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Title The making of home : the 500-year story of how our houses became our homes / Judith Flanders.
Author Flanders, Judith, author.
Edition First U.S. edition.
ISBN 9781250067357 (hardcover)
1250067359 (hardcover)
9781466875487 (electronic book)
Published New York, N.Y. : Thomas Dunne Books, 2015.
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Description xii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Call Number GT170 .F53 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 392.3/609
Summary "In The Making of Home, Flanders traces the evolution of the house from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century across northern Europe and America, showing how the homes we know today bear only a faint resemblance to homes though history. What turned a house into a home? Why did northwestern Europe, a politically unimportant, sociologically underdeveloped region of the world, suddenly became the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution, the capitalist crucible that created modernity? While investigating these important questions, Flanders uncovers the fascinating development of ordinary household items--from cutlery, chairs and curtains, to fitted kitchens, plumbing and windows--while also dismantling many domestic myths." -- Publisher's description.
Note Originally published: London : Atlantic Books, 2014.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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