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Author Flanders, Judith.

Title The making of home : the 500-year story of how our houses became our homes / Judith Flanders.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2015.

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Edition First U.S. edition.
Description xii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Note Originally published: London : Atlantic Books, 2014.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-334) and index.
Contents Home thoughts : an introduction -- The family way -- A room of one's own -- Home and the world -- Home furnishings -- Building myths -- Hearth and home -- The home network -- Not at home.
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 become 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.
Subject Dwellings -- History.
Dwellings -- Social aspects.
Dwellings. (OCoLC)fst00899978
Dwellings -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00900183
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781250067357 (hardcover) : $26.99
1250067359 (hardcover)
9781466875487 (e-book)
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