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Book SynopsisPresenting an English translation of a key volume of essays, this is a work of methodological, theoretical, and historiographical significance to German studies. It includes two empirical essays, one by Lutz Niethammer on life courses of East Germans after 1945 and other by Ludtke on modes of accepting fascism among German workers.
Trade Review"The book will be valuable to those interested in new approaches in social history, social science history, and the sociology of popular culture."--American Journal of Sociology
Table of ContentsForewordCh. 1Introduction: What Is the History of Everyday Life and Who Are Its Practitioners?3Ch. 2"Missionaries in the Rowboat"? Ethnological Ways of Knowing as a Challenge to Social History41Ch. 3Mentalities, Ideologies, Discourses: On the "Third Level" as a Theme in Social-Historical Research72Ch. 4Have We Come Any Closer to Alltag? Everyday Reality and Workers' Lives as an Object of Historical Research in the German Democratic Republic116Ch. 5The History of Everyday Life and Gender Relations: On Historical and Historiographical Relationships149Ch. 6Popular Culture and Workers' Culture as Symbolic Orders: Comments on the Debate about the History of Culture and Everyday Life169Ch. 7What Happened to the "Fiery Red Glow"? Workers' Experiences and German Fascism198Ch. 8Zeroing in on Change: In Search of Popular Experience in the Industrial Province in the German Democratic Republic252Glossary of Selected Terms and Abbreviations313Contributors317
