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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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Author: Circular
Author: Circular - United States Department of Agriculture
Author: United States. Dept. of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
The Making of the Modern British Home
Author: Peter ScottPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019166488X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Making of the Modern British Home explores the impact of the modern suburban semi-detached house on British family life during the 1920s and 1930s - focusing primarily on working-class households who moved from cramped inner-urban accommodation to new suburban council or owner-occupied housing estates. Migration to suburbia is shown to have initiated a dramatic transformation in lifestyles - from a `traditional' working-class mode of living, based around long-established tightly-knit urban communities, to a recognisably `modern' mode, centred around the home, the nuclear family, and building a better future for the next generation. This process had far-reaching impacts on family life, entailing a change in household priorities to meet the higher costs of suburban living, which in turn impacted on many aspects of household behaviour, including family size. This volume also constitutes a general history of the development of both owner-occupied and municipal suburban housing estates in interwar Britain, including the evolution of housing policy; the housing development process; housing and estate design, lay-outs, and architectural features; marketing owner-occupation and consumer durables to a mass market; furnishing the new suburban home; making ends meet; suburban gardens; social filtering and conflict on the new estates; and problems of 'mis-selling' and 'Jerry building'. Peter Scott integrates the social history of the interwar suburbs with their economic, business, marketing, and architectural/planning histories, demonstrating how these elements interacted to produce a new model of working-class lifestyles and 'respectability' which marked a fundamental break with pre-1914 working-class urban communities.
Consumers' Guide
Author: Urban Farming in the West
Author: Robert CarrikerPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816545677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
From 1933 to 1935, the federal government’s Division of Subsistence Homesteads created thirty-four New Deal communities that sought to provide a healthier and more economically secure life for disadvantaged Americans. These settlements were designed to combine the benefits of rural and urban living by offering part-time farming, uplifting social functions, and inexpensive homes. Four were located in the West: in Phoenix, Arizona; El Monte and San Fernando, California; and Longview, Washington. Robert Carriker examines for the first time the intricate histories of these subsistence homestead projects, which have long been buried in bureaucratic records and clouded by misunderstanding, showing that in many ways they were among the agency’s most successful efforts. He provides case studies of the projects, rescuing their obscure histories using archival documents and rare photographs. He also reveals the machinations of civic groups and private citizens across the West who jockeyed for access to the funds being allotted for New Deal community building. By describing what took place on these western homesteads, Carriker shows that the DSH’s agenda was not as far-fetched as some have reported. The tendency to condemn the Division and its projects, he argues, has failed to appreciate the good that came from some of the individual homestead communities—particularly those in the Far West. Although overshadowed by the larger undertakings of the New Deal, some of these western communities remain thriving neighborhoods—living legacies to FDR’s efforts that show how the country once chose to deal with economic hardship. Too often the DSH is noted for its failures; Carriker’s study shows that its western homesteads were instead qualified accomplishments.
Willing's Press Guide
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Category : English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Coverage of publications outside the UK and in non-English languages expands steadily until, in 1991, it occupies enough of the Guide to require publication in parts.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series
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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Pioneers of American Landscape Design
Author: Charles A. BirnbaumPublisher: Department of Interior National Park Reservation Assistance
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A Selected Guide to the Literature of the Flowering Plants of Mexico
Author: Ida Kaplan LangmanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512803375
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
This bibliography is a guide to the literature on Mexican flowering plants, beginning with the days of the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards in the early sixteenth century.