Family Secrets
Winner of the Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association, 2014
Winner of the North American Conference on British Studies’ Stansky Prize, 2014
"Public Pick," Public Books, 2013
"Book of the Year," 2013 -- the Spectator, The Sunday Times, and the Times Literary Supplement
Exploring scores of previously sealed records, Family Secrets offers a sweeping account of how shame -- and the relationship between secrecy and openness -- has changed over the last two centuries in Britain.
Household Gods
Winner of the Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association, 2007
Co-winner of the North American Conference on British Studies’ Albion Prize, 2007
Short-listed for English PEN’s Hessell-Tiltman Prize, 2007
At what point did the British develop their mania for interiors, wallpaper, furniture, and decoration? Why have the middle classes developed so passionate an attachment to the contents of their homes? This absorbing book offers surprising answers to these questions, uncovering the roots of today's consumer society and investigating the forces that shape consumer desires. Richly illustrated, Household Gods chronicles a hundred years of British interiors, focusing on class, choice, shopping, and possessions.
The war come home
Winner of the 2002 Allan Sharlin Prize, awarded by the Social Science History Association.
Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In The War Come Home, Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent nations--Germany and Britain--cared for their disabled.
