Ruptures in the Everyday

Views of Modern Germany from the Ground

Andrew Stuart Bergerson, Leonard Schmieding, ATG26

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781789200829
• eBook ISBN: 9781785335334
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and precipitous change made it difficult for them to make sense of their lives as coherent stories—and for scholars to reconstruct them in retrospect. Ruptures in the Everyday brings together an international team of twenty-six researchers from across German studies to craft such a narrative. This collectively authored work of integrative scholarship investigates Alltag through the lens of fragmentary anecdotes from everyday life in modern Germany. Across ten intellectually adventurous chapters, this book explores the self, society, families, objects, institutions, policies, violence, and authority in modern Germany neither from a top-down nor bottom-up perspective, but focused squarely on everyday dynamics at work "on the ground."

Table of contents

• Ruptures in the Everyday
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Maps
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Chapter 1. Wende
• Chapter 2. Self
• Chapter 3. Interpersonal Relationships
• Chapter 4. Families
• Chapter 5. Objects
• Chapter 6. Institutions
• Chapter 7. Anti-Semitism
• Chapter 8. Violent Worlds
• Chapter 9. Taking Place
• Chapter 10. Telling Stories
• References
• Authors
• Index