Taking the Hard Road: Life Course in French and German Worker's Autobiographies in the Era of Industrialization - Softcover

Maynes, Mary Jo

 
9780807844977: Taking the Hard Road: Life Course in French and German Worker's Autobiographies in the Era of Industrialization
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807844977 ISBN 13: 9780807844977
Verlag: University of North Carolina Press, 2009

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"Taking the Hard Road" is an engaging history of growing up in working-class families in France and Germany during the Industrial Revolution. Based on a reading of ninety autobiographical accounts of childhood and adolescence, the book explores the far-reaching historical transformations associated with the emergence of modern industrial capitalism. According to Mary Jo Maynes, the aspects of private life revealed in these accounts played an important role in historical development by actively shaping the authors' social, political, and class identities. The stories told in these memoirs revolve around details of everyday life: schooling, parent-child relations, adolescent sexuality, early experiences in the workforce, and religious observances. Maynes uses demographics, family history, and literary analysis to place these details within the context of historical change. She also draws comparisons between French and German texts, men's and women's accounts, and narratives of social mobility and political militancy.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mary Jo Maynes is professor of history at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Schooling in Western Europe: A Social History and coeditor of Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives.

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This is an engaging history of growing up in working-class families in France and Germany during the Industrial Revolution. Based on a reading of ninety autobiographical accounts of childhood and adolescence, the book explores the far-reaching historical transformations associated with the emergence of modern industrial capitalism.

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Verlag
University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807844977
ISBN 13 
9780807844977
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
278
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