Making of the Modern British Home - The Suburban Semi and Family Life Between the Wars

Zusatztext Throughout the book the author extracts interesting details from the questionnaires and the life histories, and discusses in an even-handed manner the pros and cons of, for example, suburban homeownership or the financing system. Informationen zum Autor Peter Scott is Professor of International Business History at the University of Reading's Henley Business School. He has written extensively on the history of household consumption, retailing, consumer marketing, housing, and consumer durables during the 1920s and 1930s. His last book, Triumph of the South: A Regional Economic History of Britain During the Early Twentieth Century, was awarded the Wadsworth Prize for the best book in British business history published during 2007. Klappentext Explores the impact of the modern suburban semi-detached house on British family life during the 1920s and 1930s Zusammenfassung Explores the impact of the modern suburban semi-detached house on British family life during the 1920s and 1930s 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

Product details

• Authors: Peter Scott, Peter (Professor of International Business Scott, Scott Peter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2013
• EAN: 9780199677207
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967720-7
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, History - General History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness