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The Unknown World Of The Mobile Home
Hart, John Fraser; Rhodes, Michelle J.; Morgan, John T.
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Description for The Unknown World Of The Mobile Home
Hardback. With a wealth of detail and illustrations, The Unknown World of the Mobile Home provides readers with an in-depth look into this variation on the American dream. Num Pages: 160 pages, 50 black & white halftones, 23 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMK; JKSB; RGC; WG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and '50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable alternative to conventional site-built homes. Today one of every fourteen Americans lives in a mobile home. In The Unknown World of the Mobile Home authors John Fraser Hart, Michelle J. Rhodes, and John T. Morgan illuminate the history and culture of these often misunderstood domiciles. They describe early mobile homes, which were trailers designed ... Read more
In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and '50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable alternative to conventional site-built homes. Today one of every fourteen Americans lives in a mobile home. In The Unknown World of the Mobile Home authors John Fraser Hart, Michelle J. Rhodes, and John T. Morgan illuminate the history and culture of these often misunderstood domiciles. They describe early mobile homes, which were trailers designed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801868993
SKU
V9780801868993
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About Hart, John Fraser; Rhodes, Michelle J.; Morgan, John T.
John Fraser Hart is a professor of geography at the University of Minnesota. He is author and editor of ten books, most recently The Rural Landscape, also available from Johns Hopkins. Michelle J. Rhodes is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of geography at Simon Fraser University and an instructor of political science and geography at the ... Read more
Reviews for The Unknown World Of The Mobile Home
An insightful meditation on American notions of mobility and class. Doubletake This clear, to-the-point study directs attention to the proliferation of this type of housing and the social stigma attached to it and its occupants... This is a thought-provoking, readable examination of modern US life, far broader in scope than one might first imagine. Choice 2003 Provides the reader with ... Read more