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How the working-class home became modern, 1900-1940
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.
"The transformation of average Americans' domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes"--
How the working-class home became modern, 1900-1940
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.
"The transformation of average Americans' domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes"--
How the working-class home became modern, 1900-1940
Hubka, Thomas C. (author)
2020
xxvi, 261 Seiten
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Digital preservation by Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
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English
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305.5/62097309041
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73.87
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