Screen LibraryA taste for home : the modern middle class in Ottoman Beirut /
The "home" is a quintessentially quotidian topic, yet one at the center of global concerns: Consumption habits, aesthetic preferences, international trade, and state authority all influence the domestic sphere. For middle-class residents of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Beir...
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Stanford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Stanford,California : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The "home" is a quintessentially quotidian topic, yet one at the center of global concerns: Consumption habits, aesthetic preferences, international trade, and state authority all influence the domestic sphere. For middle-class residents of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Beirut, these debates took on critical importance. As Beirut was reshaped into a modern city, legal codes and urban projects pressed at the home from without, and imported commodities and new consumption habits transformed it from within. Drawing from rich archives in Arabic, Ottoman, French, and English--from |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-240) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780804799799 (hardback) : 0804799792 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | DS89 |
| CLC: | D737.881-09 |
| Call Number: | D737.881-09/A155 |
| Contents: | Beirut, city of the Levant -- The global intimacies of taste -- Home is where the investment is -- Things at home -- A matter of taste -- Local forms and ifranji pleasures. |