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A Cultural History of the Home presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2800 years of history, charting the changing nature and uses of domestic space throughout history.This volume, A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age, explores the place of and the cultural practices associated with the home from 1920 to the present day. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of the Home set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of home, family, the house as a physical space, furniture, work, gender, hospitality and religion.A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on the home in the modern period

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hitler in the Fjords -- 1. Romanticizing the North: German Press Accounts of Norway under the Nazis -- 2. Norway in the New Order: Infrastructure Building from Superhighways to Superbabies -- 3. Islands of Germanness: Soldiers' Homes in Occupied Norway -- Plates -- 4. The Nazification of Norway's Towns: Shaping Urban Life and Environments during Wartime -- 5. A German City in the Fjords: Hitler's Plans for New Trondheim -- Conclusion: Ghosts in the Landscape -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Photo Credits.

"At the height of the Third Reich, media outlets around the world showcased Hitler's homes to audiences eager for behind-the-scenes stories. After the war, fascination with Hitler's domestic life continued as soldiers and journalists searched his dwellings for insights into his psychology. The book's rich illustrations, many previously unpublished, offer readers a rare glimpse into the decisions involved in the making of Hitler's homes and into the sheer power of the propaganda that influenced how the world saw him."--Publisher's description

Introduction: a forgotten metropolis -- Remapping Berlin: a modern woman's guidebook to the city -- From Piccadilly to Potsdamer Strasse: the politics of clubhouse architecture -- Home of our own: single women and the new domestic architecture -- Exhibiting the new woman: the phenomenal success of Die Frau in Haus und Beruf -- Architecture of social work: workers' clubs, social welfare institutions, and the debate over female housing inspectors -- Epilogue: What a woman must know about Berlin, twenty years later