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Everyday life
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Form of life (philosophy)
Historical anthropology
Historical method
Historical sociology
Historicism
Historiography
Ideology
Industrial sociology
Industrialisation
Intellectual history
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Labor history (discipline)
Labor relations
Laborer
Labour movement
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Local history
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- ISBN 9780691008929
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
Alf Lüdtke is Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen, Germany. William Templer is a widely published translator from German and Hebrew and teaches at Preslavsky University, Shumen, Bulgaria.
