The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900
The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900
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These case studies … often steal the show, as it were, giving fascinating glimpses into topics ranging from the increasing importance of water closets, to lessons about comfort drawn from a doll’s house, to the creation of comfort in Finnish bachelor pads. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
These case studies … often steal the show, as it were, giving fascinating glimpses into topics ranging from the increasing importance of water closets, to lessons about comfort drawn from a doll’s house, to the creation of comfort in Finnish bachelor pads. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700–1900 offers the first wide-ranging study of the development of comfort in the home and makes a significant contribution to the history of every day life. The book’s pan-European approach establishes comfort as an un-culturally specific phenomenon and will undoubtedly enable further examination of this fascinating field of study- stimulating historians of home, gender, architecture, material culture, and technology alike.
This collection of essays succeeds in illuminating aspects of domestic comfort in European culture during the onset of the industrial age.
Anyone wishing to understand the meaning of home will welcome the essays in this volume, which have much to say about how inextricably linked our concept of home is with the notion of comfort. By casting light on countries across Western Europe, and looking at the situations of men, women, and even pets, this splendid collection sets a high standard for investigations of domestic space and will appeal to readers across disciplines.
Jon Stobart is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the editor of Travel and the British Country House: Cultures, Critiques and Consumption in the Long Eighteenth Century (2017) and the co-editor of A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe: Display, Acquisition and Boundaries (Bloomsbury, 2017). He is also Founding Editor of the journal History of Retailing and Consumption.
These case studies … often steal the show, as it were, giving fascinating glimpses into topics ranging from the increasing importance of water closets, to lessons about comfort drawn from a doll’s house, to the creation of comfort in Finnish bachelor pads. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700–1900 offers the first wide-ranging study of the development of comfort in the home and makes a significant contribution to the history of every day life. The book’s pan-European approach establishes comfort as an un-culturally specific phenomenon and will undoubtedly enable further examination of this fascinating field of study- stimulating historians of home, gender, architecture, material culture, and technology alike.
This collection of essays succeeds in illuminating aspects of domestic comfort in European culture during the onset of the industrial age.
Anyone wishing to understand the meaning of home will welcome the essays in this volume, which have much to say about how inextricably linked our concept of home is with the notion of comfort. By casting light on countries across Western Europe, and looking at the situations of men, women, and even pets, this splendid collection sets a high standard for investigations of domestic space and will appeal to readers across disciplines.
Jon Stobart is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the editor of Travel and the British Country House: Cultures, Critiques and Consumption in the Long Eighteenth Century (2017) and the co-editor of A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe: Display, Acquisition and Boundaries (Bloomsbury, 2017). He is also Founding Editor of the journal History of Retailing and Consumption.