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Judith Flanders

The Making of Home

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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 sixteenth to the early twentieth 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.
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2014
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2014
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    Well into the second half of the twentieth century, the difference between respectable and not-respectable working-class households ‘concern only household economy, which is largely the wives’ affair’, and was measured by whether the family ate off a bare table or used a cloth, or used china dishes or tin, had ‘cooked meals, clean clothes’ or managed without owing money to the local tradesmen, a list that slides almost imperceptibly from purchased goods to the intangible, invisible commodities of nutrition, hygiene and thrift.
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    And visible hygiene was not merely an indicator of rank, or cash. It had become yet another way of distinguishing public and private
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    As more became available, the marker of status was now less a matter of owning such garments, than it was in keeping them white – that is, visibly clean.

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