"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."
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