At home with the poor by Joseph Harley
This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c. 1650-1850). Using a vast and diverse range of sources, it gets to the very heart of what it meant to be 'poor' by examining the homes of the impoverished and mapping how numerous household goods became more widespread. As the book argues, poverty did not necessarily equate to owning very little and living in squalor. In fact, its novel findings show that most of the poor strove to improve their domestic spheres and that their demand for goods was so great that it was a driving force of the industrial revolution.-
The culture of fashion
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The culture of craft
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The autobiography of a nation
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The Study of Dress History
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Arts and Crafts objects
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Quotations on Design and Material Culture
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Italian graphic design
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The Birth of Modern London
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Victorian Furniture
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The Edwardian House
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The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century
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Graphic Design - Reproduction & Representation
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Chinoiserie
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Turning revolt into style
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Material Relations
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The Material Renaissance
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Windows for the World
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European Fashion
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Out of the Ivory Tower
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Enid Marx’s material modern
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Stiliagi and Soviet masculinities, 1945–2010
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Critical histories of the Arts and Crafts movement
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Confessions of monuments
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Celebrating the city
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Becoming couture
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'The industrialized designer'
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Art versus Industry?
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Making Sense of the Bayeux Tapestry
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Anna of Denmark
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Critical Design in Japan
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Ideal Homes, 1918-39
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Building Reputations
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Comradely Objects
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Political and Sartorial Styles
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Crafting Identities
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Hot Metal
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Crafting Design in Italy
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Surface Tensions
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Representations of British Motoring
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Bringing Modernity Home
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Precarious objects
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Threads of globalization
'This is a fabulous addition to the fields of material culture, consumption, and economic history during the period 1650–1850' - CHOICE Reviews -- .
Joseph Harley is a Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526194749 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526194740 |
| Title | At home with the poor |
| Author | Joseph Harley |
| Series | Studies In Design And Material Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2026-01-20 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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