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

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691008922
• ISBN13: 9780691008929
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"