The History of Everyday Life
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Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life
Alf Ludtke William Templer
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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.
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Foreword
Ch. 1 Introduction: What Is the History of Everyday Life and Who Are Its Practitioners? 3
Ch. 2 "Missionaries in the Rowboat"? Ethnological Ways of Knowing as a Challenge to Social History 41
Ch. 3 Mentalities, Ideologies, Discourses: On the "Third Level" as a Theme in Social-Historical Research 72
Ch. 4 Have We Come Any Closer to Alltag? Everyday Reality and Workers' Lives as an Object of Historical Research in the German Democratic Republic 116
Ch. 5 The History of Everyday Life and Gender Relations: On Historical and Historiographical Relationships 149
Ch. 6 Popular Culture and Workers' Culture as Symbolic Orders: Comments on the Debate about the History of Culture and Everyday Life 169
Ch. 7 What Happened to the "Fiery Red Glow"? Workers' Experiences and German Fascism 198
Ch. 8 Zeroing in on Change: In Search of Popular Experience in the Industrial Province in the German Democratic Republic 252
Glossary of Selected Terms and Abbreviations 313
Contributors 317
