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Pub de Philip Howell

Pub: Object Lessons

Autor Philip Howell Editat de Ian Bogost, Christopher Schaberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 feb 2025
"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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9798765102312
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 116 x 164 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
Seria Object Lessons

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

List of Figures

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

Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

Recenzii

Erudite, quirky, and amusing.
In this concise but fascinating book, Philip Howell takes the reader on a journey through medieval taverns to the craft beer bars of the 21st century - cramming in terrific trivia along the way . This book is partly a love letter and partly a plea to encourage us to get down to the local boozer.
General readers with an interest in the subject will find much to enjoy here.
What makes a pub a pub? In this entertaining - even humorous - account, historical geographer Philip Howell endeavours to answer this question, probing the many factors that define 'publand' . This is a study of reinvention - of an institution that has changed over time, yet still possesses common characteristics with its predecessors. The pub remains, despite many trials and tribulations over the centuries, very much part of the landscape.
Succeeds comprehensively in its goal to say something interesting about what a pub is, combining history, social comment, and command of the Cambridge context to great effect.
A perfect book to take on a journey, informative, entertaining and a pleasure to read.
Howell deconstructs the great British public house . examining them in such minute detail you'll reach the end of this book brim-full with fascinating historical facts and countless bits of trivia . Drink in the unique contents of this little gem and you'll be able to feast on its details for many a pub quiz to come.
I never expected to read a philosophically alert book on British pubs . Philip Howell breathes life into this well-known but poorly understood object.
An affectionate prose poem to the pub.
A thoughtful, informative and amusing guide to the varying qualities of 'publand'.
A thought-provoking study of many of the aspects of public houses, ideal for the drinker/thinker.