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House and Home in Modern Japan : Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
House and Home in Modern Japan Architecture Domestic Space and Bourgeois Culture 18801930 - Harvard East Asian Monographs Author:Jordan Sand "Jordan Sand's meticulously researched and copiously illustrated study challenges conventional notions of the capitalist, industrial and Protestant foundations of domesticity. Examining transformations of the modern Japanese home between the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he reveals the power of new ideas about family, design, ... more »taste, and the uses of space … Sand shows how architects, officials, and consumers shaped bourgeois sensibilities, producing a cosmopolitan modernity that was distinctly Japanese." —Text of the Fairbank Prize citation "The book is staggeringly erudite but also refreshingly literate … Essential for scholars on Japan but also highly recommended for all historians and sociologists interested in modernism, domesticity, urban culture, and architecture." —T. K. Kitao, Choice "This is a superb book, and Sand brings together architectural, urban, gender, family, and political history in uncommonly creative ways." —Sheldon Garon, Princeton University« less