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Author Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul

Title A Taste for Home : the Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut
Published Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (277 pages)
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 -- Conclusion
Summary Making Home places the middle-class home of late Ottoman Beirut at the intersection of global transformations in urbanity, taste, consumption, and intellectual trends
Notes Print version record
Subject Home -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- History
Middle class -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- History
Home economics -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- History
Consumer goods -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Civilization -- European influences
Consumer goods
Home
Home economics
Manners and customs
Middle class
SUBJECT Beirut (Lebanon) -- Social life and customs
Lebanon -- Civilization -- European influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002002383
Subject Lebanon
Lebanon -- Beirut
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781503601475
1503601471