Globalising Housework

Domestic Labour in Middle-class London Homes,1850-1914

Laura Humphreys (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

234 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-62667-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Laura Humphreys is Curatorial & Collections Engagement Project Manager at the Science Museum Group, UK. She was a project curator at the National Maritime Museum, following completion of a PhD at Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with the Museum of the Home.

1 Introduction; 2 A Nation uncomfortable at Home; 3 Changing Tastes: Foreign Food and Cookery; 4 Soap and Glory: Cleaning London homes; 5 Infant Empires: Childcare and the Wider World; 6 Conclusion: Global Homes in London Houses; Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	28.04.2021
Reihe/Serie	Home
Zusatzinfo	3 Tables, black and white; 23 Halftones, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-367-62667-5 / 0367626675
ISBN-13	978-0-367-62667-9 / 9780367626679
Zustand	Neuware