An archaeological study of the nature of Greek households during the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
An archaeological study of the nature of Greek households during the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
Home in the Islands addresses changes in housing in the Pacific, considers how these changes came about, and explores their consequences. Architecture intersects with critical anthropology and geography as contributors examine how social, political, religious, economic, demograp…
Home in the Islands addresses changes in housing in the Pacific, considers how these changes came about, and explores their consequences. Architecture intersects with critical anthropology and geography as contributors examine how social, political, religious, economic, demograp…
"Tune in to HGTV, visit your local bookstore's magazine section, or flip to the 'Homes' section of your weekend newspaper, and it becomes clear: domestic spaces play an immense role in our cultural consciousness. The Domestic Space Reader addresses our collective fascination wit…
"Henrik Ibsen's plays came at a pivotal moment in late nineteenth-century European modernity. They engaged his public through a strategic use of metaphors of house and home, which resonated with experiences of displacement, philosophical homelessness, and exile. The most famous …
A collection of great and imaginative essays that explore the theme of magnificent and aesthetically interesting houses in twentieth century European literature. It focuses especially on important works by Thomas Mann, Evelyn Waugh, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Siegfried Lenz, while also…
Russian modernity through time and space -- Present time, hygiene and the urban apartment -- The past in the present: nostalgic portraits of the Russian home -- Early Soviet visions of home: yesterday, today, tomorrow. "Revolution, war, dislocation, famine, and rivers of blood:…
The discourse of the Salon / Isabelle Piquet -- The display of metalwork in North European domestic spaces in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Hila Manor -- The ephemeral façade of Cardinal de Solis's palace : aesthetics and politics in 18th century Rome / Ginevera Odone.…