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Inside the Victorian Home
Author: Judith Flanders
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780393052091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings creates a rooms-by-room portrait of Victorian life--from childbirth in the master bedroom to separate gender domains in the drawing room and parlor.
Home Truths?
Author: David Buckingham
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2011-01-10
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0472051377
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An academic approach to the popular use of video production technology.
Splendid Misery: Domestic Life in the White House
Author: Monticello West
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-06-02
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 1312245360
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a very interesting read about life in the White House by the early inhabitants (prior to 1907), written to show the domestic life of our presidents, their first ladies and often times their relatives and children.
The Public and Domestic Life of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke
Author: Peter Burke
Publisher: Folcroft Library Editions
Published: 1854
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Public and Domestic Life of ... George the Third ... Embellished with Portraits of Distinguished Characters
Off the Grid
Author: Phillip Vannini
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1135010498
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Off-grid isn’t a state of mind. It isn’t about someone being out of touch, about a place that is hard to get to, or about a weekend spent offline. Off-grid is the property of a building (generally a home but sometimes even a whole town) that is disconnected from the electricity and the natural gas grid. To live off-grid, therefore, means having to radically re-invent domestic life as we know it, and this is what this book is about: individuals and families who have chosen to live in that dramatically innovative, but also quite old, way of life. This ethnography explores the day-to-day lives of people in each of Canada’s provinces and territories living off the grid. Vannini and Taggart demonstrate how a variety of people, all with different environmental constraints, live away from contemporary civilization. The authors also raise important questions about our social future and whether off-grid living creates an environmentally and culturally sustainable lifestyle practice. These homes are experimental labs for our collective future, an intimate look into unusual contemporary domestic lives, and a call to the rest of us leading ordinary lives to examine what we take for granted. This book is ideal for courses on the environment and sustainability as well as introduction to sociology and introduction to cultural anthropology courses.
Family Politics
Author: Paul Ginsborg
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 0300112114
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An exploration of the convulsive history of the 20th century's first five decades, seen through the lens of families and family life In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at center stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation states in the throes of dramatic transition: Russia in revolutionary passage from Empire to Soviet Union; Turkey in transition from Ottoman Empire to modern Republic; Italy, from liberalism to fascism; Spain during the Second Republic and Civil War; and Germany from the failure of the Weimar Republic to the National Socialist state. Ginsborg explores the effects of political upheaval and radical social policies on family life and, in turn, the impact of families on revolutionary change itself. Families, he shows, do not simply experience the effects of political power, but are themselves actors in the historical process. The author brings human and personal elements to the fore with biographical details and individual family histories, along with a fascinating selection of family photographs and portraits. From WWI--an indelible backdrop and imprinting force on the first half of the twentieth century--to post-war dictatorial power and family engineering initiatives, to the conclusion of WWII, this book shines new light on the profound relations among revolution, dictatorship, and family.
The Art of Domestic Life
Author: Kate Retford
Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780300110012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Conversely, Retford shows, there remained the requirement to promote traditional values of patriarchy and hierarchy, notably in the context of the country-house collection. Here, eighteenth-century portraits took their place in displays that emphasised ancestry and inherited virtue. However, in the later part of the century, the morals of the aristocracy were increasingly subject to political satire and caricature. Retford argues that some members of the nobility fought back with portraits that emphasised their domestic merits." ""The Art of Domestic Life" contributes a wealth of visual evidence to ongoing debates about the history of the family. It offers important insights into both innovations and traditions in the genre of family portraiture in this period, based on in-depth research into paintings, the lives of the sitters depicted and the domestic spaces in which those images were hung."--BOOK JACKET.
The Domestic Life of the Jersey Devil
Author: Bill Sprouse
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780989952200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"For the better part of two centuries, at least, the story of the Jersey Devil has been part of the culture of Southern New Jersey. A fire-breathing monster with the head of a horse, bat wings and the body of a kangaroo, the creature is said to be the thirteenth child of Mother Leeds, born in 1735, when the unfortunate woman put a curse on her future offspring. Informed at a tender age by his BeBop (his grandmother) that he is distantly related to the beast, Bill Sprouse goes looking for the story behind the story of his family's connection to the famous monster. The result is part memoir, part travelogue and part a raucous tour of three-hundred years of New Jersey history. The domestic life of the Jersey Devil traces the origins of the Jersey Devil legend to an obscure pamphlet war that sent the Leeds family to Leeds Point at the end of the seventeenth century, with the family patriarch, Daniel Leeds, branded Satan's Harbinger in the process. If follows the story through its connection with the residents of the Pine Barrens (the famous Pineys), who were said to live in fear of the beast, and, finally, it examines the legend in its modern iterations: X-files episodes are made about the monster, a pro hockey team is named after it, and residents of Galloway Township attempt to adopt the creature as the official town mascot. The domestic life of the Jersey Devil is a book about suburban identity, and about one suburbanite's attempt to come to terms with his family history in the most unlikely of places."--
