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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flanders, Judith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home.

Home--History.

Dwellings--History.

Dwellings.

History.

Dwellings--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Press, [2015]

Summary:

The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in her fascinating new book, 'home' is a relatively new idea. When in 1900 Dorothy assured the citizens of Oz that 'There is no place like home', she was expressing a view that was the climax of 300 years of change. 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, and shows how the 'homes' we know today bear only a faint resemblance to 'homes' though history. Along the way she investigates the development of ordinary household items - from cutlery, chairs and curtains, to the fitted kitchen, plumbing and windows - while also dismantling many domestic myths.

Contents:

PART ONE

1.The Family Way

2.A Room of One's Own

3.Home and the World

4.Home Furnishings

5.Building Myths

PART TWO

6.Hearth and Home

7.The Home Network.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Baird Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781250067357

1250067359