Making Fire And Light In The Home Pre 1820
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Making Fire Light in the Home Pre 1820
Author | : John Caspall |
Publsiher | : ACC Distribution |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D00516879L |
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Making Fire and Light in the Home Pre 1820
Author | : John Caspall |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:887029259 |
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The Making of Home
Author | : Judith Flanders |
Publsiher | : Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781782393788 |
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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 16th to the early 20th 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.
At Day s Close Night in Times Past
Author | : A. Roger Ekirch |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2006-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393344585 |
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"Remarkable…Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us." —Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians—those that unfold at night. In this "triumph of social history" (Mail on Sunday), Ekirch's "enthralling anthropology" (Harper's) exposes the nightlife that spawned a distinct culture and a refuge from daily life. Fear of crime, of fire, and of the supernatural; the importance of moonlight; the increased incidence of sickness and death at night; evening gatherings to spin wool and stories; masqued balls; inns, taverns, and brothels; the strategies of thieves, assassins, and conspirators; the protective uses of incantations, meditations, and prayers; the nature of our predecessors' sleep and dreams—Ekirch reveals all these and more in his "monumental study" (The Nation) of sociocultural history, "maintaining throughout an infectious sense of wonder" (Booklist).
Encyclopedia of Interior Design
Author | : Joanna Banham |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 3392 |
Release | : 1997-05-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781136787577 |
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From ancient Greece to Frank Lloyd Wright, studiola to smoking rooms, chimney boards to cocktail cabinets, and papier-mâché to tubular steel, the Encyclopedia of Interior Design provides a history of interior decoration and design from ancient times to the present day. It includes more than 500 illustrated entries covering a variety of subjects ranging from the work of the foremost designers, to the origins and function of principal rooms and furnishing types, as well as surveys of interior design by period and nationality all prepared by an international team of experts in the field. Entries on individuals include a biography, a chronological list of principal works or career summary, a primary and secondary bibliography, and a signed critical essay of 800 to 1500 words on the individual's work in interior design. The style and topic entries contain an identifying headnote, a guide to main collections, a list of secondary sources, and a signed critical essay.
Paris
Author | : Charissa Bremer-David,J. Paul Getty Museum |
Publsiher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781606060520 |
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Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Apr. 26-Aug. 7, 2011, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sept. 18-Dec. 10, 2011.
Lighting for Historic Buildings
Author | : Roger W. Moss |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013187649 |
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