TY - BOOK AU - Toufoul Abou-Hodeib TI - A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut SN - 9780804799799 PY - 2017/// CY - Stanford, California PB - Stanford University Press KW - Home KW - Lebanon KW - Beirut KW - History KW - Middle class KW - Home economics KW - Consumer goods KW - Beirut (Lebanon) KW - Social life and customs KW - Civilization KW - European influences N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-240) and index; Beirut, city of the Levant -- The global intimacies of taste -- Home is where the investment is -- Things at home -- A matter of taste -- Local forms and ifranji pleasures ER -