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After World War
II, France undertook a national modernizing project, one that included the
development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key
groups of actors — state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers
— and argues that 1) modernizers looked to domestic space as a site for
social engineering and nation-building; 2) designers and advocates of the
modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and 3) the
French home of the Trente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a
hybrid product of architects’, planners’, and...
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