A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland / / Lynn Abrams, Callum Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Abrams, Lynn,; Brown, Callum,
• MitwirkendeR: Abrams, Lynn,; Bartie, Angela,; Brown, Callum G.,; Fleming, Linda,; Foyster, Elizabeth,; Jamieson, Lynn,; McFarland, E. W.,; McIvor, Arthur,; Stewart, John,; Sutcliffe, Steven,; Whatley, Christopher A.,; Young, Hilary,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: A History of Everyday Life in Scotland
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 9 B/W halftones

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748624317);Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives, rituals, beliefs and consumption, this volume exposes how the very substance of everyday lif...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Series Editors’ Foreword
• Introduction: Conceiving the Everyday in the Twentieth Century
• 1. Charting Everyday Experience
• 2. From Scullery to Conservatory: Everyday Life in the Scottish Home
• 3. Changing Intimacy: Seeking and Forming Couple Relationships
• 4. The Realities and Narratives of Paid Work: The Scottish Workplace
• 5. Being a Man: Everyday Masculinities
• 6. Spectacle, Restraint and the Sabbath Wars: The ‘Everyday’ Scottish Sunday
• 7. After ‘The Religion of My Fathers’: The Quest for Composure in the ‘Post-Presbyterian’ Self
• 8. Culture in the Everyday: Art and Society
• 9. Sickness and Health
• 10. Passing Time: Cultures of Death and Mourning
• Further Reading
• Notes on the Contributors
• Index