{"product_id":"a-taste-for-home-1","title":"A Taste for Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \"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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from rich archives in Arabic, Ottoman, French, and English—from advertisements and catalogues to previously unstudied government documents—\u003ci\u003eA Taste for Home\u003c\/i\u003e places the middle-class home at the intersection of local and global transformations. Middle-class domesticity took form between changing urbanity, politicization of domesticity, and changing consumption patterns. Transcending class-based aesthetic theories and static notions of \"Westernization\" alike, this book illuminates the self-representations and the material realities of an emerging middle class. Toufoul Abou-Hodeib offers a cultural history of late Ottoman Beirut that is at once global in the widest sense of the term and local enough to enter the most private of spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Toufoul Abou-Hodeib","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572204339382,"sku":"9781503601475","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781503601475_c897966e-839e-4037-89d7-0d08b5331ab4.jpg?v=1727355305","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/a-taste-for-home-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}