The history of everyday life - Alf Ludtke
reconstructing historical experiences and ways of life
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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 significance as well as a substantive contribution to German studies. Introduced by Alf Lüdtke, the volume includes two empirical essays, one by Lutz Niethammer on life courses of East Germans after 1945 and one by Lüdtke on modes o...
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1995Uitgever: Princeton University Press318 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0691008922ISBN-13: 9780691008929Koop dit boek tweedehands
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[Auteur: Lüdtke, Alf & William Templer (translation)] [Pagina's: 318] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Princeton University Press] [Jaar: 1995] [Titel: The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life]
