Parlor and Kitchen : : Housing and Domestic Culture in Budapest, 1870-1940 / / Gábor Gyáni.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Gyáni, Gábor,
• MitwirkendeR: Bodóczky, Miklós,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

Besides Berlin, Budapest was the fastest-growing capital city in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Parlor and Kitchen, the work of a microhistorian and historical anthropologist, describes the development of private spaces in this newly emerged metropolis. Author Gábor Gyáni has chosen two distinct groups of contemporary society: the upper middle class and the working class, to present their homes, domestic culture and attitudes. At the same time the book offers a panoramic view of the everyday life of the entire society, on social segregation and mobility. Behind the visual details the author reveals a great deal about the value systems of the groups of society investigated. Reconstructing minute details as well as case studies, the author has relied on archival sources, private documents, and statistical data. The text is accompanied by contemporary photographs, maps and blueprints. This enlightening and interesting volume will be of interest not only to historians, anthropologists and sociologists, but also to the general reader with an interest in urban history. Gábor Gyáni is founder and editor of the quarterly Budapest Review of Books. He is President of the Hungarian-American Historians' Committee and Secretary of the Urban History Workshop of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. A student of the late professor Péter Hanák, Gyáni is active in research into the urban and social history of modern Hungary and the theory and methodology of history writing.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 CONSTRUCTION AND URBANIZATION IN BUDAPEST AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- CHAPTER 2 PRIVATE REFUGE—DOMESTIC LIFE IN BUDAPEST IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES -- CHAPTER 3 PRIVATE SPACE IN A COMMUNITY. THE BUDAPEST WORKING-CLASS FLAT IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- INDEX