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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791256103321

Autore

Abrams Lynn

Titolo

A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-282-62007-X

9786612620072

0-7486-3041-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 pages)

Collana

A history of everyday life in Scotland  A history of everyday life in twentieth century Scotland.

Altri autori (Persone)

BrownCallum G. <1953->

Disciplina

306.0941109049

941.1082

Soggetti

Scotland -- Social conditions -- 20th century

Scotland History 20th century

Scotland Social life and customs 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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