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How the working-class home became modern, 1900-1940 /
"The transformation of average Americans' domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes. At the turn of the nineteenth century, the average American family still lived by kerosene light, ate in the kitchen, and used an outhouse. By 194...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Architecture, landscape, and American culture series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Housing and domestic reform from a middle-majority perspective
- Headwinds to researching common houses : eleven prevailing themes
- Two worlds apart : domestic conditions at the turn of the twentieth century
- Modern houses for a new middle class : new standards of living
- The dwellings of modern domestic reform : cottages, duplexes, multi-units, and remodeled houses
- Domestic life transformed : how the working class became middle-class in housing
- Epilogue : response to working-class improvement.