{"product_id":"strait-gate-daniel-jtte-jutte-9780300211085","title":"Strait Gate: Thresholds and Power in Western History","description":"\u003cb\u003eA prize-winning scholar offers a sweeping exploration of the role doors have played in history\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Exploring a chapter not yet probed in the cultural history of the West, \u003ci\u003eThe Strait Gate\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how doors, gates, and related technologies such as the key and the lock have shaped the way we perceive and navigate the domestic and urban spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. J tte reveals how doors have served as sites of power, exclusion, and inclusion--and, by extension, as metaphors for salvation--in the course of Western history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book makes it clear that doors, more than any other parts of the house, are the objects onto which we project our ideas of and anxieties about security, privacy, and shelter. Without doors, of course, houses could not exist. But even though we each walk through doorways well over a hundred times a day, we typically pay little attention to the doors we encounter. We regard them simply as a means of entering or leaving a building or room. Yet when our doors stop working as they should--when we find that we cannot lock or open them, for instance--we react with discomfort and anxiety. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on a wide range of archival, literary, and visual sources, as well as on research literature across various disciplines and languages, J tte pays particular attention to the history of the practices that have developed over the centuries in order to handle and control doors in everyday life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel J?te (Jutte)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300211082\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300211085\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.10d","brand":"Daniel J?te (Jutte)","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946406183167,"sku":"9780300211085","price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d3621d77-73f8-4748-a5e9-6cbf6b1ac5f4.jpg?v=1681512966","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/strait-gate-daniel-jtte-jutte-9780300211085","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}