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The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life

Door Alf Lüdtke e.a.

Categorie
Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer
#277733
Titel
The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life
Auteur
Lüdtke, Alf & William Templer (translation)
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Princeton University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1995
ISBN10
0691008922
ISBN13
9780691008929
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

Alltagsgeschichte, or the history of everyday life, emerged during the 1980s as the most interesting new field among West German historians and, more recently, their East German colleagues. Partly in reaction to the modernization theory pervading West German social history in the 1970s, practitioners of alltagsgeschichte stressed the complexities of popular experience, paying particular attention, for instance, to the relationship of the German working class to Nazism. Now the first English translation of a key volume of essays (Alltagsgeschichte: Zur Rekonstruktion historischer Erfahrungen und Lebensweisen) presents this approach and shows how it cuts across the boundaries of established disciplines. The result is a work of great methodological, theoretical, and historiographical signif... (Lees verder)icance as well as a substantive contribution to German studies. Introduced by Alf Ludtke, the volume includes two empirical essays, one by Lutz Niethammer on life courses of East Germans after 1945 and one by Ludtke on modes of accepting fascism among German workers. The remaining five essays are theoretical: Hans Medick writes on ethnological ways of knowledge as a challenge to social history; Peter Schottler, on mentalities, ideologies, and discourses and alltagsgeschichte; Dorothee Wierling, on gender relations and alltagsgeschichte; Wolfgang Kaschuba, on popular culture and workers' culture as symbolic orders; and Harald Dehne on the challenge alltagsgeschichte posed for Marxist-Leninist historiography in East Germany.
Pagina's
318
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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