The essay analyzes the American ideology of home in a period when national identity was being challenged by the transformation of the US into a modern capitalistic country. Literature was instrumental in the process of adjusting to dramatic changes in life styles and helped legitimize the new high rise buildings as "home".

American interiors: Redesigning the home in turn-of-the-century New York

SCACCHI, ANNA
2004

Abstract

The essay analyzes the American ideology of home in a period when national identity was being challenged by the transformation of the US into a modern capitalistic country. Literature was instrumental in the process of adjusting to dramatic changes in life styles and helped legitimize the new high rise buildings as "home".
2004
Public Spaces, Private Lives: Race, Class, Gender, and Citizenship in New York, 1890-1929
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