Everyday Life

How the Ordinary Became Extraordinary

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvJoseph A. Amato,Joseph a. Amato,Joseph A Amato

419 kr

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In Everyday Life Joseph A. Amato offers a panoramic account of the evolution of our daily existence and reflects on the complex and changing textures of everyday life. Beginning with societies of scarcity and relative lack of change and ending with our own twenty-first-century lives, he ranges widely through topics as varied as dirt and muck, walking and the charm of spices, and through time from early agriculture to mechanization and the modern urban existence.Amato argues that what seems to be ordinary is in fact extraordinary, and shows how life, even in the very recent past, differed from life in our present-day societies of abundance and of remorseless change. The result is a challenging and thought-provoking introduction to change and continuity in daily life.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-07-01
Mått216 x 138 x 32 mm
Vikt462 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781780236636

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In "Everyday Life," Amato reflects on the complex and changing textures of everyday life, beginning with societies of scarcity and relative lack of change and ending with Amato s own American life of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A work of wide-ranging erudition, it nonetheless offers food for reflection to the everyday reader today, for it lays out how life even in the very recent past differed from life in present-day societies of abundance and of seemingly unstoppable change. --Allan Megill, University of Virginia"