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A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abrams, Lynn.
- Series:
- A history of everyday life in Scotland A history of everyday life in twentieth century Scotland.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scotland--Social conditions--20th century.
- Scotland--History--20th century.
- Scotland.
- Scotland--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Local Subjects:
- Scotland--Social conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 life was composed, tracing both the intimate and the mass changes that the people endured. Using novel perspectives and methods, chapters range across the experiences of work, art and death, the way Scots conceived of themselves and their homes, and the way the 'old Scotland' of oppressive community rules broke down from mid-century as the country reinvented it
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Series Editors' Foreword; Introduction Conceiving the Everyday in the Twentieth; Chapter 1 Charting Everyday Experience; Chapter 2 From Scullery to Conservatory: Everyday Life in the Scottish Home; Chapter 3 Changing Intimacy: Seeking and Forming Couple Relationships; Chapter 4 The Realities and Narratives of Paid Work: The Scottish Workplace; Chapter 5 Being a Man: Everyday Masculinities; Chapter 6 Spectacle, Restraint and the Sabbath Wars: The 'Everyday' Scottish Sunday
- Chapter 7 After 'The Religion of My Fathers': The Quest for Composure in the 'Post-Presbyterian' SelfChapter 8 Culture in the Everyday: Art and Society; Chapter 9 Sickness and Health; Chapter 10 Passing Time: Cultures of Death and Mourning; Further Reading; Notes on the Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612620072
- 9781282620070
- 128262007X
- 9780748630417
- 0748630414
- OCLC:
- 638860028
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