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The making of the modern British home : The suburban semi and family life between the wars / Peter Scott.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0199677204
- 9780199677207
- 019166488X
- 9780191664885
- 1900-1999
- Suburban life -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Suburban homes -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Social conditions
- Suburban homes
- Suburban life
- Vorort
- Arbeitersiedlung
- Arbeiter
- Familie
- Lebensstil
- Alltag
- Sozialer Wandel
- Society
- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Great Britain
- Grossbritannien
- 307.7 SCO
- HT352.G72 S37 2013
Contents:
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.
Table of contents
Dedication ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; List of abbreviations and a note on currency ; 1. The new suburban world ; 2. The road to 'homes fit for heroes' ; 3. Municipal suburbia ; 4. Developing owner-occupied suburbia ; 5. Marketing owner-occupation to the masses ; 6. Life in owner-occupied suburbia ; 7. Equipping the suburban home ; 8. The suburban garden ; 9. Visible and invisible walls: social differentiation and conflict in interwar suburbia ; 10. A crisis averted by war? Mis-selling, consumer protest, and the Borders case ; 11. The legacy of the interwar semi ; Appendix: A note on sources ; Bibliography ; Index
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents
Dedication ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; List of abbreviations and a note on currency ; 1. The new suburban world ; 2. The road to 'homes fit for heroes' ; 3. Municipal suburbia ; 4. Developing owner-occupied suburbia ; 5. Marketing owner-occupation to the masses ; 6. Life in owner-occupied suburbia ; 7. Equipping the suburban home ; 8. The suburban garden ; 9. Visible and invisible walls: social differentiation and conflict in interwar suburbia ; 10. A crisis averted by war? Mis-selling, consumer protest, and the Borders case ; 11. The legacy of the interwar semi ; Appendix: A note on sources ; Bibliography ; Index
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.
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