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The making of the modern British home : the suburban semi and family life between the wars
- Title
- The making of the modern British home : the suburban semi and family life between the wars / Peter Scott.
- Author
- Scott, Peter, 1966-
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- ©2013
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HT352.G72 S26 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Explores the impact of the modern suburban semi-detached house on British family life during the 1920s and 1930s. Focuses primarily on working-class households who moved from inner-urban accommodation to new suburban council or owner-occupied housing estates.
- Subject
- Schweiz Eidgenössischer Vorort
- 1900-1999
- Suburban life > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Suburban homes > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Society
- Social conditions
- Suburban homes
- Suburban life
- Arbeitersiedlung
- Arbeiter
- Familie
- Lebensstil
- Alltag
- Sozialer Wandel
- Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The new suburban world -- The road to 'homes fit for heroes' -- Municipal suburbia -- Developing owner-occupied suburbia -- Marketing owner occupation to the masses -- Live in owner-occupied suburbia -- Equipping the suburban home -- The suburban garden -- Visible and invisible walls : social differentiation and conflict in interwar suburbia -- A crisis averted by war? : mis-selling, consumer protest, and the Borders case -- The legacy of the interwar semi.
- ISBN
- 0199677204
- 9780199677207
- 019166488X
- 9780191664885
- LCCN
- 2013936238
- OCLC
- ocn862437760
- 862437760
- SCSB-14499233
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library