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A History of Domestic Space : Privacy and the Canadian Home.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774852258
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A History of Domestic SpaceDDC classification:
  • 728
LOC classification:
  • NA7241 -- .W37 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Housing and Privacy -- 2 Interiors -- Little House, Big House -- The Question of Crowding -- The Organization of Household Space -- Domestic Technology and Interior Spaces -- The Bathroom -- The Parlour -- The Kitchen -- The Bedroom -- The Apartment -- 3 The House in Its Setting -- The Farmhouse -- The Villa -- The Home in City and Suburb -- The Front of the House -- Porches, Verandahs, Patios, Decks -- Gardens and Yards -- 4 Privacy and the Canadian Home -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and how family and social relationships have shaped - and been shaped by - these changing spaces.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Housing and Privacy -- 2 Interiors -- Little House, Big House -- The Question of Crowding -- The Organization of Household Space -- Domestic Technology and Interior Spaces -- The Bathroom -- The Parlour -- The Kitchen -- The Bedroom -- The Apartment -- 3 The House in Its Setting -- The Farmhouse -- The Villa -- The Home in City and Suburb -- The Front of the House -- Porches, Verandahs, Patios, Decks -- Gardens and Yards -- 4 Privacy and the Canadian Home -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and how family and social relationships have shaped - and been shaped by - these changing spaces.

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