The history of everyday life : reconstructing historical experiences and ways of life / edited by Alf Ludtke ; translated by William Templer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ludtke, Alf, 1943-

Series:

Princeton studies in culture/power/history.

Princeton studies in culture/power/history

Standardized Title:

Alltagsgeschichte. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

History--Methodology.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Other Title:

Everyday life

Everyday life.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Lüdtke, the volume includes two empirical essays, one by Lutz Niethammer on life courses of East Germans after 1945 and one by Lüdtke 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 Schöttler, 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD / Eley, Geoff

CHAPTER 1. Introduction: What Is the History of Everyday Life and Who Are Its Practitioners ? / Ludtke, Alf

CHAPTER 2. "Missionaries in the Rowboat" ? Ethnological Ways of Knowing as a Challenge to Social History / Medick, Hans

CHAPTER 3. Mentalities, Ideologies, Discourses: On the "Third Level" as a Theme in Social-Historical Research / Schӧttler, Peter

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 / Dehne, Harald

CHAPTER 5. The History of Everyday Life and Gender Relations: On Historical and Historiographical Relationships / Wierling, Dorothee

CHAPTER 6. Popular Culture and Workers' Culture as Symbolic Orders: Comments on the Debate about the History of Culture and Everyday Life / Kaschuba, Wolfgang

CHAPTER 7. What Happened to the " Fiery Red Glow" ? Workers' Experiences and German Fascism / Lüdtke, Alf

CHAPTER 8. Zeroing in on Change: In Search of Popular Experience in the Industrial Province in the German Democratic Republic / Niethammer, Lutz

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781400817023

1400817021

9781400821648

1400821649

9781400812578

1400812577

OCLC:

1132229598