Pub (Object Lessons) （2025. 160 S. 6.456693 in）

Howell, Philip

BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC（2025発売）

BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC（2025発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 160 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798765102312

Description

(Short description)
Pub takes the English public house apart, showing how its separate elements work, and reassessing the pub's history and cultural significance. Pub takes the English public house apart, showing how its separate elements work, and reassessing the pub's history and cultural significance.
(Text)

"Erudite, quirky, and amusing." Sebastian Faulks

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In this unique book, Philip Howell takes the public house as an object, or rather as a series of objects: he takes the pub apart and examines its constituent elements, from pub signs to the bar staff to the calling of "time." But Pub also explores the hidden features of the pub, such as corporate control, cultural acceptance and exclusion, and the role of the pub in communities.

(Table of content)

List of Figures

Pre-Loading
1. Getting There
2. Getting Served
3. Settling In
4. Diversions
5. Last Orders

Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

(Review)
General readers with an interest in the subject will find much to enjoy here. Choice Reviews 20250903
(Author portrait)
Philip Howell is Professor of Historical Geography, University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of At Home and Astray: The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain (2015) and Geographies of Regulation: Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Empire (2009).