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The volume focuses on three countries - Egypt, Israel, and Turkey (earlier the Ottoman Empire) - in the period between the mid-nineteenth and the early Twenty-first-centuries. It studies the consumption of homes and domesticity as changing processes in space and time. It further foregrounds research into the impact of economic, political, and socio-cultural transformations on the private life of individuals. Even more so, the volume advances the discussion on the processes of restructuring of self-identity and lifestyles via acts of consumption. The volume focuses on the market where producers and consumers meet, the state and the national movements with their respective ideologies and practices, the role of advertisers, but also the agency of individual and group choice. In addition, it discusses, in different ways, the close interrelations between the representation of home and domestic life, for example in journals, books, and photography, and the political economy of house consumption. Thus, this volume avoids the notion of linearity and 'progress' in the transition to modern lifestyles in favour of more subtle accounts of the different venues in which people in the Middle East restructure their most immediate and intimate surroundings.

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This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on three important themes in Middle East history - consumption studies, family history and the home. It productively seeks to link the three themes and argues for the centrality of consumption to studies of the family and its relations to the larger society. The authors examine transformations in the domestic space and its contents as a vehicle for changes within the family. They treat consumption as a complex phenomenon and they add to the healthy ongoing debate on the role of consumption in shaping history. - Donald Quataert, Professor, Department of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York The essays of Shechter's edited volume on domestic consumption patterns in Egypt, Israel, the late Ottoman Empire, and Turkey make a major contribution to Middle East studies.The scope of scholarly inquiry is impressive, as is the wealth of sources analyzed by each author. This volume fills a huge gap in the field of Middle East studies and will prove to be essential reading for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars of the region. --Mine Ener, Villanova University, author of Managing Egypt's Poor and the Politics of Benevolence and coeditor of Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts

This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on three important themes in Middle East history - consumption studies, family history and the home. It productively seeks to link the three themes and argues for the centrality of consumption to studies of the family and its relations to the larger society. The authors examine transformations in the domestic space and its contents as a vehicle for changes within the family. They treat consumption as a complex phenomenon and they add to the healthy ongoing debate on the role of consumption in shaping history. - Donald Quataert, Professor, Department of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York The essays of Shechter's edited volume on domestic consumption patterns in Egypt, Israel, the late Ottoman Empire, and Turkey make a major contribution to Middle East studies.The scope of scholarly inquiry is impressive, as is the wealth of sources analyzed by each author. This volume fills a huge gap in the field of Middle East studies and will prove to be essential reading for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars of the region. --Mine Ener, Villanova University, author of Managing Egypt's Poor and the Politics of Benevolence and coeditor of Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts

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AYSE BUGRA Professor of Economics, Bogazici University, Turkey TANIA FORTE Professor of Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University, Israel TALLY KATZ-GERRO Professor of Sociology, University of Haifa, Israel SONJA LADEN Professor of Comparative Literature, Tel-Aviv University, Israel NANCY MICKLEWRIGHT Professor ofArt History, The Getty Grant Program, USA LISA POLLARD Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA MONA RUSSELL Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

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