Author: Rowland Atkinson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526108178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life, highlighting the depth of fear as well as the desire for prestige and social display and the ideological strength of home ownership. This book offers a fresh analysis of our homes, our demands for security and anxieties about invasion, loss and finding seclusion in a worrying and divided world. Using a rich range of sources from cutting-edge research to media accounts, the book considers the fantasies and realities of dangers to the contemporary home and its inhabitants, and details the extreme measures now used in the pursuit of total safety.
Domestic fortress
Author: Rowland Atkinson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526108178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life, highlighting the depth of fear as well as the desire for prestige and social display and the ideological strength of home ownership. This book offers a fresh analysis of our homes, our demands for security and anxieties about invasion, loss and finding seclusion in a worrying and divided world. Using a rich range of sources from cutting-edge research to media accounts, the book considers the fantasies and realities of dangers to the contemporary home and its inhabitants, and details the extreme measures now used in the pursuit of total safety.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526108178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life, highlighting the depth of fear as well as the desire for prestige and social display and the ideological strength of home ownership. This book offers a fresh analysis of our homes, our demands for security and anxieties about invasion, loss and finding seclusion in a worrying and divided world. Using a rich range of sources from cutting-edge research to media accounts, the book considers the fantasies and realities of dangers to the contemporary home and its inhabitants, and details the extreme measures now used in the pursuit of total safety.
The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century
Author: David MacGibbon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Domestic Fortress
Author: Rowland Atkinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784995317
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Today's home has become a kind of fortress that says as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life today, highlighting the depth of fear as well as desirefor prestige and social display. Domestic Fortress offers a fresh analysis of our homes, our demands for security and anxieties about invasion, loss and finding seclusion in a worrying and divided world. As industries and politicians raise our fears further, Domestic Fortress considers why gatingand fortress designs, beloved of celebrities and the super-rich, have become the ordinary feature of societies affected by rising social inequalities, the exclusion of strangers and constant anticipation of disaster and loss in our daily lives.Using a rich range of sources from cutting-edge research to media accounts, Domestic Fortress considers the fantasies and realities of dangers to the contemporary home and its inhabitants and details the extreme measures now used in the pursuit of total safety.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784995317
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Today's home has become a kind of fortress that says as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life today, highlighting the depth of fear as well as desirefor prestige and social display. Domestic Fortress offers a fresh analysis of our homes, our demands for security and anxieties about invasion, loss and finding seclusion in a worrying and divided world. As industries and politicians raise our fears further, Domestic Fortress considers why gatingand fortress designs, beloved of celebrities and the super-rich, have become the ordinary feature of societies affected by rising social inequalities, the exclusion of strangers and constant anticipation of disaster and loss in our daily lives.Using a rich range of sources from cutting-edge research to media accounts, Domestic Fortress considers the fantasies and realities of dangers to the contemporary home and its inhabitants and details the extreme measures now used in the pursuit of total safety.
At Home in Shakespeare's Tragedies
Author: Geraldo U. de Sousa
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754668862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Geraldo U. de Sousa's interdisciplinary study explores the representation, perception, and function of the house, home, household, and family life in Shakespeare's great tragedies. Concentrating on King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, and drawing on approaches from the fields of anthropology, art history, architecture, social and theater history, phenomenology and gender studies, this book analyzes how Shakespeare evokes domestic space to convey interiority, reflect on the habits of the mind, interrogate everyday life, and register elements of the tragic journey.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754668862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Geraldo U. de Sousa's interdisciplinary study explores the representation, perception, and function of the house, home, household, and family life in Shakespeare's great tragedies. Concentrating on King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, and drawing on approaches from the fields of anthropology, art history, architecture, social and theater history, phenomenology and gender studies, this book analyzes how Shakespeare evokes domestic space to convey interiority, reflect on the habits of the mind, interrogate everyday life, and register elements of the tragic journey.
The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century
Author: David MacGibbon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII
Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry Viii: Preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and Elsewhere in England
Author: John Sherren Brewer
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875058218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875058218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Colchester, Fortress of the War God
Author: David Radford
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782970754
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This volume is a critical assessment of the current state of archaeological knowledge of the settlement originally called Camulodunon and now known as Colchester. The town has been the subject of antiquarian interest since the late 16th century and the first modern archaeological excavations occurred in 1845 close to Colchester Castle, the towns most prominent historic site. The earliest significant human occupation recorded from Colchester dates to the late Neolithic, but it was only towards the end of the 1st century BC that an oppidum was established in the area. This was superseded initially by a Roman legionary fortress and then the colonia of Camulodunum on a hilltop bounded on the north and east by the river Colne. There is little evidence for continuing occupation here in the early post-Roman period, but in 917 the town was re-established as a burgh and gradually grew in importance. After the Norman Conquest, a castle was built on the foundations of the ruined Roman Temple of Claudius, and a priory and an abbey were established just to the south of the walled town. Although the town, as elsewhere, was affected by the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the English Civil War it remained essentially medieval in character until the 18th century. During the 19th century this process of change was accelerated by the arrival of the railway, industrialisation and the establishment of the military garrison. Since the 1960s Colchester has been subject to recurring phases of re-development, the most recent having ended only in 2007, which have had a significant impact on the historic environment. Fortunately the town is one of the best studied in the country.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782970754
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This volume is a critical assessment of the current state of archaeological knowledge of the settlement originally called Camulodunon and now known as Colchester. The town has been the subject of antiquarian interest since the late 16th century and the first modern archaeological excavations occurred in 1845 close to Colchester Castle, the towns most prominent historic site. The earliest significant human occupation recorded from Colchester dates to the late Neolithic, but it was only towards the end of the 1st century BC that an oppidum was established in the area. This was superseded initially by a Roman legionary fortress and then the colonia of Camulodunum on a hilltop bounded on the north and east by the river Colne. There is little evidence for continuing occupation here in the early post-Roman period, but in 917 the town was re-established as a burgh and gradually grew in importance. After the Norman Conquest, a castle was built on the foundations of the ruined Roman Temple of Claudius, and a priory and an abbey were established just to the south of the walled town. Although the town, as elsewhere, was affected by the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the English Civil War it remained essentially medieval in character until the 18th century. During the 19th century this process of change was accelerated by the arrival of the railway, industrialisation and the establishment of the military garrison. Since the 1960s Colchester has been subject to recurring phases of re-development, the most recent having ended only in 2007, which have had a significant impact on the historic environment. Fortunately the town is one of the best studied in the country.
Man's House as His Castle in Elizabethan Domestic Tragedy
Author: Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Your Home Your Fortress
Author: Bill Heid
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937660024
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Your Home, Your Fortress is Solutions From Science's latest offering in its preparedness library products. This book will show you how to turn your home into your own personal Fort Knox, with tips and ideas on protecting your home from robbers, looters, and murderers. By taking you through probable scenarios, Your Home, Your Fortress enables you to plan ahead for all eventualities and gives you the knowledge you need to protect your loved ones and possessions from the criminal element.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937660024
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Your Home, Your Fortress is Solutions From Science's latest offering in its preparedness library products. This book will show you how to turn your home into your own personal Fort Knox, with tips and ideas on protecting your home from robbers, looters, and murderers. By taking you through probable scenarios, Your Home, Your Fortress enables you to plan ahead for all eventualities and gives you the knowledge you need to protect your loved ones and possessions from the criminal element.