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

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781250067357
ISBN: 1250067359
Physical Description: xii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Thomas Dunne Books, 2015.
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published: London : Atlantic Books, 2014.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.