The History of Everyday Life : : Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life / / ed. by Alf Ludtke.

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, practitioner...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • CHAPTER 1. Introduction: What Is the History of Everyday Life and Who Are Its Practitioners ?
  • CHAPTER 2. "Missionaries in the Rowboat" ? Ethnological Ways of Knowing as a Challenge to Social History
  • CHAPTER 3. Mentalities, Ideologies, Discourses: On the "Third Level" as a Theme in Social-Historical Research
  • CHAPTER 4. Have We Come Any Closer to Alltag? Everyday Reality and Workers' Lives as an Object of Historical Research in the German Democratic Republic
  • CHAPTER 5. The History of Everyday Life and Gender Relations: On Historical and Historiographical Relationships
  • CHAPTER 6. Popular Culture and Workers' Culture as Symbolic Orders: Comments on the Debate about the History of Culture and Everyday Life
  • CHAPTER 7. What Happened to the " Fiery Red Glow" ? Workers' Experiences and German Fascism
  • CHAPTER 8. Zeroing in on Change: In Search of Popular Experience in the Industrial Province in the German Democratic Republic
  • GLOSSARY OF SELECTED TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
  • CONTRIBUTORS