Alexander Wood Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Map of sheet steel and light plate capacity, 1922. From Kenneth Warren, The American Steel Industry, 1850-1970: A Geographical Interpretation (1973) https://t.co/9PGtmw0buD

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"The house when the builders leave it is only a shell. The house when people move into it comes to life." Michael Young and Peter Willmott, Family and Kinship in East London (1957)

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@jptormey Sheila Fitzpatrick is about to publish a single volume history, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union, which could fit the bill. She’s a good guide for Soviet history.

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@evahagberg F.M.L. Thompson's The Rise of Respectable Society, a social history of Victorian Britain, has a nice chapter on the importance of the house in this era.

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@AshleyGardini @Momademia Guillermo Algaze's Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization is excellent.

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@bgoldst Richard Harris’ Building a Market is a good book on the home improvement industry. Perhaps he published an article on the topic?

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@terry_renaud These are great, thanks. Here’s Raphael Samuel, from Theatres of Memory (1994). “If history was thought of as an activity rather than a profession, then the number of its practitioners would be legion.”