UID:
almahu_9949386675802882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781000374858
,
1000374858
,
9781000374841
,
100037484X
,
9781003110248
,
100311024X
Series Statement:
Home
Content:
"This book shows how international influences profoundly shaped the 'English' home of Victorian and Edwardian London; homes which, in turn, influenced Britain's (and Britons') place on the world stage. The period between 1850 and 1914 was one of fundamental global change, when London homes were subject to new expanding influences that shaped how residents cleaned, ate, and cared for family. It was also the golden age of domesticity, when the making and maintaining of home expressed people's experience of society, class, race, and politics. Focusing on the everyday toil of housework, the chapters in this volume show the 'English' home as profoundly global conglomeration of people, technology, and things. It examines a broad spectrum of sources, from patents to ice cream makers, and explores domestic histories through original readings and critiques of printed sources, material culture, and visual ephemera"--
Note:
List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Situating London homes, 1850- -- Middle-class houses, households, and homes -- Uncovering domestic labor in the archive -- A nation uncomfortable at home -- The servant problem -- 'From an English point of view :' English domestic self-criticisms -- 'A sealed book to us:' Foreign perspectives on metropolitan domesticity -- Tropical residents at home? Anglo-imperial returners in London -- Changing tastes : foreign food and cookery -- Celebrity chefs and cuisine bourgeois : French food in London -- Incorporating Italian Ices into London diets -- The emergence of American foods in London -- 'Old colonials' and cookery : policing Imperial authenticity in metropolitan kitchens -- Soap and glory: cleaning London homes. -- Imperial advertisements and everyday cleaning -- Selling labor savers : a case study of the carpet sweeper -- Personal hygiene in (and out of) the home -- Doing dirty laundry in public : class, race, and sending laundry out -- Infant empires : childcare and the wider world -- Imperial childcare at home : ayahs in London -- 'French or German preferred :' foreign governesses in London homes -- The English girl's garden : German-style kindergartens in London -- Conclusion : global homes in London houses.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Humphreys, Laura. Gloabalising housework. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9780367626679
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003110248
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003110248
