Everyday Life in History & the Bible

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Order of Contents

Whole
Antiquity

Babylon & Assyria
Greece
Romans
Britain
Egypt
India
Central America
South America

Bible
Early
Medieval

Byzantium
Vikings

Renaissance
Post-Reformation

England

America
Canada
England
Near East
China
East Asia
South Asia

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On the Whole of History

Friendly

Ventura, Piero – History of Everyday Life  (Kingfisher Books, 1987)  160 pp.  ToC

Reader’s Digest – Reader’s Digest Everyday Life through the Ages: How Ordinary People Lived–from the Stone Age to the Twentieth Century  ed. Michael W. Davison  (London: Reader’s Digest Association, 1992)  380 pp.  ToC

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Antiquity

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In General

Book

National Geographic – Everyday Life in Ancient Times: Highlights of the Beginnings of Western Civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece & Rome  (Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 1951)  370 pp.  ToC

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Babylon & Assyria

Book

Saggs, H.W.F. – Everyday Life in Babylon & Assyria  (Batsford, 1967)  205 pp.

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Ancient Greece

Short & Friendly

Nichols, Roger & Sarah – Aspects of Greek Life: Greek Everyday Life  (Longman, 1978)  47 pp.  ToC

Pearson, Anne – Everyday Life in Ancient Greece  in Clues to the Past  (Watts, 1993)  37 pp.

Hull, Robet – Everyday Life: the World of Ancient Greece  (Watts, 2000)  33 pp.  ToC

Senker, Cath – Everyday Life in Ancient Greece  in Uncovering History  (Smart Apple Media, 2004)  50 pp.  ToC

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Books

Robinson, C.E. – Everyday Life in Ancient Greece  (Greenwood Press, 1933)  163 pp.  ToC

Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. Quennell – Everyday Life in Homeric Greece  (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1936)  210 pp.  ToC

Willetts, R.F. – Everyday Life in Ancient Crete  (Batsford, 1969)  190 pp.  ToC

Webster, T.B.L. – Everyday Life in Classical Athens  (Batsford, 1969)  190 pp.  ToC

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Special Topic

The Trojan Woman  tr. Gilbert Murray  (Allen & Unwin, 1925)

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Ancient Romans

Short & Friendly

Millard, Anne – Ancient Rome: Everyday Life in Roman Times  (1981)  63 pp.  ToC

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Books

Treble, H.A. & K.M. King – Everyday Life in Rome in the Time of Caesar & Cicero  (Clarendon Press, 1939)  160 pp.  ToC

Cowell, F.R. – Everyday Life in Ancient Rome  (London: Batsford, 1961)  220 pp.  ToC

Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. – Everyday Life in Roman Times  (Transworld Publishers, 1972)  125 pp.

MacNamara, Ellen – Everyday Life of the Etruscans  (Batsford, 1973)  220 pp.  ToC

Casson, Lionel – Everyday Life in Ancient Rome  (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998)  180 pp.  ToC

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Ancient Britain

Short & Friendly

Grant, Neil – Everyday Life of the Celts  in Uncovering History  (Smart Apple Media, 2004)  45 pp.

Butterfield, Moira – Discover the Celts & the Iron Age: Everyday Life  (Watts, 2016)  35 pp.  ToC

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Book

Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. – Everyday Life in Roman Britain  3rd ed.  (London: Batsford, 1924)  150 pp.  ToC

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Ancient Egypt

Short & Friendly

Harris, Nathaniel – Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt  (Sea-to-Sea, 2006)  35 pp.  ToC

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Books

Shorter, Alan W. – Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt  (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1932)  240 pp.  ToC

Montet, Pierre – Everyday Life in Egypt in the days of Ramesses the Great  tr. Maxwell-Hyslop & Drower  (St. Martin’s Press, 1958)  410 pp.  ToC

White, Jon M. – Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt  (Dorset Press, 1989)  208 pp.  ToC

Casson, Lionel – Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt  rev. ed.  (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2001)  175 pp.

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Ancient India

Book

Sengupta, Padmini – Everyday Life in Ancient India  (Oxford Univ. Press, 1950)  210 pp.  ToC

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Ancient Central America

Books

Bray, Warwick – Everyday Life of the Aztecs  (Batsford, 1968)  205 pp.

Whitlock, Ralph – Everyday Life of the Maya  (Dorset Press, 1987)  190 pp.  ToC

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Ancient South America

Book

Kendall, Ann – Everyday Life of the Incas  (Batsford, 1973)  210 pp.  ToC

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Bible Times

Books

National Geographic – Everyday Life in Bible Times  ed. James B. Pritchard  (National Geographic, 1977)  450 pp.  ToC

Klinck, Arthur – Everyday Life in Bible Times  3rd ed.  (Concordia Publishing House, 1995)  170 pp.

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Early Church Era

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Medieval Era

Short & Friendly

Pofahl, Jane – The Middle Ages: Everyday Life  (1993)  34 pp.  ToC

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Books

Rowling, Marjorie – Everyday Life in Medieval Times  (Batsford, 1968)  225 pp.  ToC

Hinds, Kathryn – Everyday Life in Medieval Europe  (Marshall Cavendish, Benchmark, 2009)  285 pp.

Holmes, Jr., U.T. – Daily Living in the Twelfth Century

Powicke, F.M. – Ways of Medieval Life & Thought

Cromarty, Dorothy – Everyday Life in Medieval Shrewsbury  (Shropshire Books, 1991)  130 pp.

Kenyon, Sherrilyn – The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages: the British Isles from 500 to 1500  (Writer’s Digest Books, 1995)  230 pp.

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England

Book

Dyer, Christopher – Everyday Life in Medieval England  (Hambledon Press, 1993)  350 pp.

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Special Topics

Power, Eileen – Medieval People

Towns

Coulton, G.C. – The Medieval Village

Platt, Colin – The English Medieval Town

Cummins, John – The Hound & the Hawk: the Art of Medieval Hunting

Travel

Rowling, Marjorie – Everyday Life of Medieval Travellers  (Batsford, 1971)  205 pp.  ToC

Newton, A.P. – Travel & Travellers in the Middle Ages

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Byzantium

Book

Rice, Tamara – Everyday Life in Byzantium  (Dorset Press, 1967)  240 pp.  ToC

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The Babarians

Short & Friendly

Martell, Hazel M. – Everyday Life in Viking Times  (1994)  35 pp.  ToC

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Book

Todd, Malcom – Everyday Life of the Barbarians: Goths, Franks & Vandals  (Dorset Press, 1988)  190 pp.  ToC

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Renaissance

Book

Chamberlin, E.R. – Everyday Life in Renaissance Times  (London: Batsford, 1965)  200 pp.  ToC

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Post-Reformation

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England

Tudors

Short & Friendly

Gogerly, Liz – Everyday Life: Focus on Tudor Life  (Watts, 2006)  35 pp.  ToC

Butterfield, Moira – Everyday Life: Discover the Tudors  (Watts, 2013)  33 pp.  ToC

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Books

Mountfield, David – Everyday Life in Elizabethan England  (1978)

Porter, Stephen – Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne Boleyn  (2016)  285 pp.

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America

Whole

Everyday Life: American Social History: Selections from the Three-Volume Encyclopedia of American Social History  (MacMillan Library Reference, 1993)  1,085 pp.  This is an encyclopedia; subjects are in alphabetical order.

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Colonial

Books

Stone, Gertrude & M. Grace Fickett – Everyday Life in the Colonies  (Heath & Co., 1905)  155 pp.  ToC

Langdon, William C. – Everyday Things in American Life, 1607-1776  (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937)  408 pp.

Wright, Louis B. – Everyday Life in Colonial America  (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1966)  250 pp.  ToC

Hawke, David F. – Everyday Life in Early America  (Harper & Row, 1999)  220 pp.  ToC

Schaun, George & Virginia – Everyday Life in Colonial Maryland  (1959; Maryland Historical Press, 1980)  160 pp.  ToC

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Early

Books

Langdon, William C. – Everyday Things in American Life, 1776-1876  (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1941)  450 pp.

Larkin, Jack – The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840  (Harper  Perennial, 1997)  380 pp.  ToC

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Frontier

Workbook

Hazen, Walter A. – Everyday Life: the Frontier  (Good Year Books, 1998)  97 pp.  ToC

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Contemporary

Fogly, Mortiner B. – Sketches of America: Illustrative of Everyday Life & Everyday People  (Tamar Press, 2006)  77 pp.  ToC

These are the impressions of a foreigner, which are quite humorous.

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Canada

Book

Russell, Loris – Everyday Life in Colonial Canada  (Batsford, 1973)  200 pp.  ToC

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England

Short & Friendly

Chamberlin, E.R. – Everyday Life in Victorian Times  (Simon & Schuster, 1993)  58 pp.  ToC

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Near East

1800 to 1900

Book

Ramsay, W.M. – Everyday Life in Turkey  (Hodder & Stoughton, 1897)  315 pp.  ToC

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China

In the 1800’s

Book

Dukes, Edwin J. – Everyday Life in China, or Scenes along River & Road in Fuh-Kien  (Religious Tract Society, 1885)  250 pp.  ToC

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East Asia

Contemporary

Cultural Life in Korea: Scenes from Everyday Life  ed. June J. Jo  (2003)  165 pp.  ToC

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Japan

1600 to 1800’s

Book

Dunn, C.J. – Everyday Life in Traditional Japan  (Batsford, 1969)  205 pp.  ToC

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South Asia

Contemporary

Books

eds. Diane Mines & Sarah Lamb – Everyday Life in South Asia  (Indiana Univ. Press, 2010)  580 pp.

eds. Adams, Kathleen & Kathleen Gillogly – Everyday Life in Southeast Asia  (Indiana Univ. Press, 2011)

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