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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gudrun andersson”
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  • Daily Lives and Daily Routines in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Gudrun Andersson, Jon Stobart ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies
    This book explores the ways in which the lives and routines of a wide range of people across different parts of Europe and the wider world were structured and played out through everyday practices. It focuses on the detail of individual lives and how these were shaped by spaces and places, by movement and material culture – both the buildings they occupied and the objects they used in their ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Wonderbox: Curious histories of how to live

    Curious histories of how to live

    by Roman Krznaric ...
    There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be surprisingly powerful. Showing the lessons that can be learned from the past, cultural historian Roman Krznaric explores twelve universal topics, from work and ... Read more

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  • The New Museology

    Edited by Peter Vergo ...
    Series series Critical Views
    Traditionally, museums have concerned themselves with foremost with conservation and classification. But what is conserved, and why? How is it classified? And who does this benefit? Are exhibitions really designed with the visitor in mind? And what qualities of experience are being offered? These are just some of the pressing questions which the authors - museum professionals, historians and ... Read more

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  • The Making of Home

    The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes

    by Judith Flanders ...
    The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in her best and most ambitious work to date, "home" is a relatively new idea.In The Making of Home, Flanders traces the evolution of the house from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century across ... Read more

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  • How Should We Live?

    Great Ideas from the Past for Everyday Life

    by Roman Krznaric ...
    How Should We Live? explores twelve universal topics-including love, family, and empathy; work, time, and money-and shows what history can teach us about the art of living. ... Read more

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  • Housing and Dwelling

    Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture

    Edited by Barbara Miller Lane ...
    Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues involved in the study of domestic architecture, taken from an innovative and informed combination of philosophy, history, social science, art, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island

    Edited by Jonathan Conlin ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High- and low-born alike were free to walk the paths; the proximity to strangers and the danger of dark ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Material Lives

    Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century

    by Serena Dyer ...
    Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-century production and consumption. Genteel women's making has traditionally been seen as decorative, trivial and superficial. Yet their material archives, forged through fabric samples, watercolours, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Histories of Art and Design Education

    Collected Essays

    by Mervyn Romans ...
    Series series Readings in Art and Design Education
    This Collection of fourteen essays by eleven different authors demonstrates the increasing breadth of enquiry that has taken place in art and design education history over the past two decades, and the expanding range of research models applied to the subject. The essays are grouped into six sections that propose the emergence of genres of research in the field - Drawing from examples, Motives and ... Read more

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  • Histories of Tourism

    Representation, Identity and Conflict

    Edited by Prof. John K. Walton ...
    Series Book 6 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This collection of essays develops the historical dimension to tourism studies through thematic case studies. The editor's introduction argues for the importance of a closer relationship between history and tourism studies, and an international team of contributors explores the relationships between tourism, representations, environments and identities in settings ranging from the global to the ... Read more

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  • Built from Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular

    Edited by Peter Guillery ...
    This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing. Engaging with wider issues of social and cultural history, this book is of use to anyone with an interest in architectural history.Presented ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage

    Edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Carla Pascoe ...
    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore. Young people constitute up to half the population of any given society, but their lives are inescapably influenced by the expectations and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD