The Making of the Modern British Home: The Suburban Semi and Family Life between the Wars
Autor Peter Scotten Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 aug 2013
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780199677207
ISBN-10: 0199677204
Pagini: 290
Ilustrații: 39 black and white figures/illustrations
Dimensiuni: 163 x 240 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0199677204
Pagini: 290
Ilustrații: 39 black and white figures/illustrations
Dimensiuni: 163 x 240 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Scott's well-grounded and comprehensive account will be the definitive book on this subject for years to come.
Highly recommended.
Scott offers us a systematic and balanced survey of the interwar suburb ... Nicely illustrated, well written, and clearly organized, this book may profitably be read by anyone with an interest in the modern history of British cities and housing as well as by historians of class and gender.
Scott provides a comprehensive narrative and analysis covering both [municipal and private] enterprise ... He covers the development process, construction, marketing, and finance. Other chapters describe the transition from the social intimacy of inner-city working-class life, and the adaptation to more middle-class conventions of respectability and aloofness. Innovative chapters are devoted to what that new life was like. A particularly fascinating one covers the devotion to gardening, a distinctive feature of British urban living ... Housing is shaping up to become major social crisis. But there is little understanding of a more successful past, and no inclination to return to it. Scott's excellent book describes this interwar success with solid authority.
Throughout the book the author extracts interesting details from the questionnaires and the life histories, and discusses in an even-handed manner the pros and cons of, for example, suburban homeownership or the financing system.
Highly recommended.
Scott offers us a systematic and balanced survey of the interwar suburb ... Nicely illustrated, well written, and clearly organized, this book may profitably be read by anyone with an interest in the modern history of British cities and housing as well as by historians of class and gender.
Scott provides a comprehensive narrative and analysis covering both [municipal and private] enterprise ... He covers the development process, construction, marketing, and finance. Other chapters describe the transition from the social intimacy of inner-city working-class life, and the adaptation to more middle-class conventions of respectability and aloofness. Innovative chapters are devoted to what that new life was like. A particularly fascinating one covers the devotion to gardening, a distinctive feature of British urban living ... Housing is shaping up to become major social crisis. But there is little understanding of a more successful past, and no inclination to return to it. Scott's excellent book describes this interwar success with solid authority.
Throughout the book the author extracts interesting details from the questionnaires and the life histories, and discusses in an even-handed manner the pros and cons of, for example, suburban homeownership or the financing system.
Notă biografică
Peter Scott is Professor of International Business History at the University of Reading's Henley Business School. He has written extensively on the history of household consumption, retailing, consumer marketing, housing, and consumer durables during the 1920s and 1930s. His last book, Triumph of the South: A Regional Economic History of Britain During the Early Twentieth Century, was awarded the Wadsworth Prize for the best book in British business history published during 2007.