Tag: Household

Hints on Household Taste The Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration (Dover Architecture)


Free Download Hints on Household Taste: The Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration (Dover Architecture) by Charles L. Eastlake
English | February 1, 1986 | ISBN: 0486250466 | 400 pages | EPUB | 19 Mb
One of the most important books in the history of 19th century interior design, serving as a basic source on what was proper, beautiful, and efficient for architects, manufacturers, and decorators. Eastlake details furnishings of all types, decorative objects, cupboards, color combinations, carpeting and rugs, wallpaper, and much more. Over 100 illustrations

(more…)

Gleaning for Communism The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice


Free Download Xenia A. Cherkaev, "Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice"
English | ISBN: 1501770233 | 2023 | 210 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Gleaning for Communism is a historical ethnography of the property regime upon which Soviet legal scholars legislated a large modern state as a household, with guaranteed rights to a commons of socialist property, rather than private possessions. Starting with former Leningrad workers’ everyday stories about smuggling industrial scrap home over factory fences, Xenia Cherkaev traces collectivist ethical logic that was central to this socialist household economy, in theory and practice: from its Stalin-era inception, through Khrushchev’s major foregrounding of communist ethics, to Gorbachev’s perestroika, which unfurled its grounding tension between the interests of any given collective and of the socialist household economy itself.

(more…)

Every Household Its Own Government Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria


Free Download Daniel Jordan Smith, "Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria"
English | ISBN: 0691229902 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 7 MB
An up-close account of how Nigerians’ self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state power

(more…)