Main entry:

Gyáni, Gábor.

Title & Author:

Parlor and kitchen : housing and domestic culture in Budapest, 1870-1940 / by Gábor Gyáni.

Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2002.

Description:

xix, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Translated by Miklos Bodoczky.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-270) and index.
Ch. 1. Construction and Urbanization in Budapest at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Ch. 2. Private Refuge -- Domestic Life in Budapest in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Ch. 3. Private Space in the Community. The Budapest Working-Class Flat in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Translated from the Hungarian.

Summary:

"Besides Berlin, Budapest was the fastest-growing capital city in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Parlor and Kitchen, the work of a microhistorian and historical anthropologist, describes the development of private spaces in this newly emerged metropolis." "Author Gabor Gyani has chosen two distinct groups of contemporary society: the upper middle class and the working class, to present their homes, domestic culture and attitudes. At the same time, the book offers a panoramic view of the everyday life of the entire society, on social segregation and mobility. Behind the visual details the author reveals a great deal about the value systems of the groups of society Investigated."
"Reconstructing minute details as well as case studies, the author has relied on archival sources, private documents, and statistical data. The text is accompanied by contemporary photographs, maps and blueprints."--Cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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ISBN:

963924127X (cloth)
9789639241275 (cloth)

Subject:

City and town life Hungary Budapest History.
Public spaces Hungary Budapest History.
Popular culture Hungary Budapest History.
Vie urbaine Hongrie Budapest Histoire.
Espaces publics Hongrie Budapest Histoire.
Culture populaire Hongrie Budapest Histoire.
City and town life.
Popular culture.
Public spaces.
Gemeinschaftliche Nutzung
Stadtleben
Wohnkultur
Öffentlicher Raum
Wooncultuur.
Huisvesting.
Stadscultuur.
Hungary Budapest.
Budapest

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225491
Call No.: HT145.H8 G9 2002
Status: Available