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The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Homes
Judith Flanders
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Description for The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Homes
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 362.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848878006
SKU
V9781848878006
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Judith Flanders
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Homes
[A] wonderful social history ... a riveting, whistle-stop tour through history.
Daily Mail
In The Making of Home, historian Judith Flanders furnishes fascinating detail on how houses have been made to feel like home over 500 years.
Wall Street Journal
Thought-provoking... Deeply absorbing
Charlotte Moore
Spectator
This is a hugely informative ... Read more
Daily Mail
In The Making of Home, historian Judith Flanders furnishes fascinating detail on how houses have been made to feel like home over 500 years.
Wall Street Journal
Thought-provoking... Deeply absorbing
Charlotte Moore
Spectator
This is a hugely informative ... Read more