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How did homes come to be seen as special places, distinct from houses? In this study of how the concept of 'home' developed in the West up until the early 20th century, Flanders first outlines the political, religious, economic and social developments that produced the circumstances in which 'home' flourished. In the second part of her book she describes how innovations in technology created the infrastructure that has become part of our notions of home, from comfortable furniture to plumbing.
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Judith Flanders is the author of the bestselling The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed (2003); the critically acclaimed Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (2006); A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; The Invention of Murder (2011); and, most recently, The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London (2012). She is a frequent contributor to the Sunday Telegraph, Guardian, Spectator and The Times Literary Supplement. Currently a senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham, she lives in London.
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"Covering all aspects of home life, Flanders even delves into modern architecture, popular in the house countries, which creates designs for ostentation rather than usefulness. The author's extensive knowledge of lifestyles and simple, concise writing combine for an enjoyable book" —Kirkus Reviews
"Flanders' prose is witty and lucid, her ideas stimulating. . . . In this clever and entertaining book she gives the everyday, from bed-making to drain-pipes, all the vivid interest of something newly made strange." —London Sunday Times
"Flanders, a historian best known for her works on Victorian culture, has a knack for finding alternative perspectives on the familiar. In her new book, she takes an unconventional look at how our modern idea of home came to be." --The Washington Post, 1/15/2016
"Flanders' prose is witty and lucid, her ideas stimulating. . . . In this clever and entertaining book she gives the everyday, from bed-making to drain-pipes, all the vivid interest of something newly made strange." —London Sunday Times
"Flanders, a historian best known for her works on Victorian culture, has a knack for finding alternative perspectives on the familiar. In her new book, she takes an unconventional look at how our modern idea of home came to be." --The Washington Post, 1/15/2016
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 this revealing book, 'home' is a relatively new concept. When in 1900 Dorothy assured the citizens of Oz that 'There is no place like home', she was expressing a view that was a culmination of 300 years of economic, physical and emotional change.In The Making of Home, Flanders traces the evolution of the house across northern Europe and America from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century, and paints a striking picture of how the homes we know today differ from homes through history.The transformation of houses into homes, she argues, was not a private matter, but an essential ingredient in the rise of capitalism and the birth of the Industrial Revolution. Without 'home', the modern world as we know it would not exist, and as Flanders charts the development of ordinary household objects - from cutlery, chairs and curtains, to fitted kitchens, plumbing and windows - she also peels back the myths that surround some of our most basic assumptions, including our entire notion of what it is that makes a family.As full of fascinating detail as her previous bestsellers, The Making of Home is also a book teeming with original and provocative ideas. The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the bestselling author of The Victorian City and The Victorian House. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781848878006
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