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The Making of the Modern British Home explores the impact of the modern suburban semi-detached house on British family life during the 1920s and 1930s - focusing primarily on working-class households who moved from cramped inner-urban accommodation to new suburban council or owner-occupied housing estates. Migration to suburbia is shown to have initiated a dramatic transformation in lifestyles - from a 'traditional' working-class mode of living, based around long-established tightly-knit urban communities, to a recognisably 'modern' mode, centred around the home, the nuclear family, and building a better future for the next generation. This process had far-reaching impacts on family life, entailing a change in household priorities to meet the higher costs of suburban living, which in turn impacted on many aspects of household behaviour, including family size. This volume also constitutes a general history of the development of both owner-occupied and municipal suburban housing estates in interwar Britain, including the evolution of housing policy; the housing development process; housing and estate design, lay-outs, and architectural features; marketing owner-occupation and consumer durables to a mass market; furnishing the new suburban home; making ends meet; suburban gardens; social filtering and conflict on the new estates; and problems of 'mis-selling' and 'Jerry building'. Peter Scott integrates the social history of the interwar suburbs with their economic, business, marketing, and architectural/planning histories, demonstrating how these elements interacted to produce a new model of working-class lifestyles and 'respectability' which marked a fundamental break with pre-1914 working-class urban communities.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Humanities History Regional & national history

• Pełny tytuł: Making of the Modern British Home
• Podtytuł: The Suburban Semi and Family Life between the Wars
• Autor: Peter Scott
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 290
• EAN: 9780199677207
• ISBN: 0199677204
• ID: 04534682
• Wydawca: Oxford University Press
• Waga: 610 g
• Wymiary: 160 × 241 × 23 mm
• Data wydania: 29. August 2013

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