{"product_id":"a-taste-for-home-toufoul-abou-hodeib-9780804799799","title":"A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut","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 \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Toufoul Abou-Hodeib\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804799792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804799799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Toufoul Abou-Hodeib","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065153958143,"sku":"9780804799799","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2d41617a-9fdc-4d91-9a38-c39ffcb9014f.jpg?v=1768673352","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-taste-for-home-toufoul-abou-hodeib-9780804799799","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}