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grizzly.anderson: Bryson likes to wander from one topic to another, and toss in bits of trivia and history. Schott's Miscellany is a fascinating collection of trivia without the attempt to thread it together.
fannyprice: Bryson's discussion of the development of the home from a more open, collaborative space to a warren of special-purpose rooms as the concept of "privacy" became more important dovetails nicely with Lethbridge's discussion of the increasing physical separation between servants and the served in 18th and 19th century British homes.… (plus d'informations)
grizzly.anderson: What Bryson does for the home, taking it one room at a time and looking at how we got where we are, Mars & Kohlstedt do for cities and infrastructure.
cbl_tn: Both books address some of the same technological advances, such as refrigeration and electricity and artificial light, for a popular audience.
Bill Bryson frappe encore. Après Une histoire de tout ou presque, qui m'avait séduit, il s'aventure sur le terrain métaphorique de la demeure, de la maison, du home ou du manoir pour nous faire découvrir une certaine histoire du monde. Bien que sa vision soit particulièrement anglo-britannique avec quelques incursions françaises ou américaines, l'aventure est engageante. On y croise l'Histoire, mais surtout on fait le plein de petites histoires s'articulant autour de personnages peu ou prou connus, autour d'êtres flamboyants ou totalement décalés. On se nourrira de contes réels, de récits épiques et d'équipées rocambolesques. On sourira plus d'une fois et on se surprendra du tour que le monde a pris pour devenir ce qu'il est en passant par ce qu'il a été.
C'est une lecture attrayante, enrichissante et pas du tout ennuyante. Bref, on sourit souvent et on est surpris plus qu'à notre tour par les chemins de traverse qu'a pris l'histoire du monde. [rivesderives.blogspot.ca/2016/03/une-histoire-du-monde-sans-sortir-de.html] ( )
“At Home” is baggy, loose-jointed and genial. It moves along at a vigorously restless pace, with the energy of a Labrador retriever off the leash, racing up to each person it encounters, pawing and sniffing and barking at every fragrant thing, plunging into icy waters only to dash off again, invigorated. You do, somehow, maintain forward momentum and eventually get to the end. Bryson is fascinated by everything, and his curiosity is infectious.
Bryson is certainly famous enough to have got away with a far less bulging compendium. Instead, on our behalf, he’s been through those hundreds of books (508 according to the bibliography) some of which even the most assiduous readers among us might never have got around to: Jacques Gelis’s History of Childbirth: Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern Europe, say, or John A Templer’s The Staircase: Studies of Hazards, Falls and Safer Designs. He’s then extracted their most arresting material and turned the result into a book that, for all its winning randomness, is not just hugely readable but a genuine page-turner — mainly because you can’t wait to see what you’ll find out next.
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To Jesse & Wyatt
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Introduction
Some time after we moved into a former Church of England rectory in a village of tranquil anonymity in Norfolk, I had occasion to go up into the attic to look for the source of a slow but mysterious drip.
Chapter I The Year
In the autumn of 1850, in Hyde Park in London, there arose a most extraordinary structure: a giant iron-and-glass greenhouse covering nineteen acres of ground and containing within its airy vastness enough room for four St. Paul's Cathedrals.
Quelque temps après notre emménagement dans l'ancien presbytère anglican d'un village paisible et anonyme du Norfolk, il m'a fallu grimper au grenier pour chercher l'origine d'un «ploc-ploc» assez lent mais néanmoins énigmatique.
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Jane Loudon published "Gardening for Ladies" in 1841. It was the first book to encourage women of elevated classes to get their hands dirty and even to take on a faint glow of perspiration. It bravely insisted that women could manage gardening independent of male supervision if they simply observed a few sensible precautions - working steadily but not too vigorously, using only light tools, never standing on damp ground because of the unhealthy emanations that would rise up though their skirts.
We are so used to having a lot of comfort in our lives—to being clean, warm, and well fed—that we forget how recent most of that is.
If I had to summarize it in a sentence, you could say that the history of private life is a history of getting comfortable slowly.
Not until 1954 was the work complete. Nearly two hundred years after Jefferson started on it, Monticello was finally the house he had intended it to be.
We now come to the most dangerous part of the house—in fact, one of the most hazardous environments anywhere: the stairs.
Private life was completely transformed in the nineteenth century—socially, intellectually, technologically, hygienically, sartorially, sexually, and in almost any other respect that could be made into an adverb.
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