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Everyday Life in History
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Order of Contents
Whole of History
Multi-National
America
Canada
Central America
Britain
France
Spain
Southern Europe
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
Arctic
Russia
Middle East
South Asia
China
East Asia
Australia
Africa
South America
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Whole of History
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Multi-National
Around 1900
Doctors
ed. Moulton, Charles W. – The Doctor’s Red Lamp: a Book of Short Stories concerning the Doctor’s Daily Life (Saalfield Publishing, 1904) 360 pp. ToC
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1950 to 2000
Rural Life & Food
eds. Tovey & Blanc – Food, Nature & Society: Rural Life in Late-Modernity (Ashgate, 2001) 380 pp. ToC
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Children
Short & Friendly
Hollyer, Beatrice – Wake Up, World! A Day in the Life of Children around the World (Henry Holt, 1999) 42 pp. Locations
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Contemporary
Encyclopedia
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures & Daily Life, vol. 1 (Africa), 2 (Americas), 3 (Asia & Oceania, A-K), 4 (L-Z), 5 (Europe) 3rd ed. (Gale: 2017) 730 pp. ToC 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Country Index 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 This is in alphabetical order by topic.
There is also a 1998 2nd ed. of this set, here. Worldmark also has encyclopedia sets of the nations and national economies.
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War & Unstable Places
Article
Matanov, Giacco, Bogic, Ajdukovic, Franciskovic, Galeazzi, Maria; Kucukalic, Lecic-Tosevski, Morina, Popovski, Schutzwohl, Priebe – “Subjective Quality of Life in War-Affected Populations” in BMC Public Health, vol. 13, no. 624 (2013) 10 pp.
This covers five Balkan and three Western European countries, the research being carried out in 2005-2006.
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Book
Greenhouse, Mertz & Warren – Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change (Duke Univ. Press, 2002) 445 pp. ToC
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Culture
See the 90 titles published by Greenwood Press on different nations at Internet Archive. Often the books cover from 1900 on, or even from before, and have a chapter on daily life.
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Food
See the 40+ titles published by Greenwood Press on different nations at Internet Archive.
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eds. Tovey & Blanc – Food, Nature & Society: Rural Life in Late-Modernity (Ashgate, 2001) 380 pp. ToC
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Women
Bisilliat, Jeanne & Michele Fieloux – Women of the Third World: Work & Daily Life tr. Amann & Amann (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1987) 100 pp. ToC
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Children
Tudge, Jonathan – The Everyday Lives of Young Children: Culture, Class & Child Rearing in Diverse Societies (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008) 325 pp.
Lamothe, Matt – This is How we Do it: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World (Chronicle Books, 2017) 45 pp.
The seven countries are: Italy, Japan, Iran, India, Peru, Uganda and Russia.
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Shoes & Boots
Hall, J. Sparkes – The Book of the Feet: a History of Boots & Shoes: with illustrations of the fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks & Romans, and the prevailing style throughout Europe, during the Middle Ages down to the present period… (William H. Graham, 1847) 220 pp. ToC
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Travel
Kleinschmidt, Harald – People on the Move: Attitudes toward & Perceptions of Migration in Medieval & Modern Europe (Praeger, 2003) 300 pp. ToC
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America
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Canada
1600 to 1800
Book
Russell, Loris – Everyday Life in Colonial Canada (Batsford, 1973) 200 pp. ToC This covers 1608-1867.
Douville, Raymond & Jacques Casanova – Daily Life in Early Canada tr. Carola Congreve (London: Allen & Unwin, 1964) 230 pp. ToC
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At Sea
Volo, Dorothy & James – Daily Life in the Age of Sail (Greenwood Press)
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1700’s
Historical Fiction
Quiller-Couch, A.T. – Fort Amity: a Story of French Canadian Life in the Time of Wolfe & Montcalm [during the French-Indian War, 1758-1760] (London: Dent, 1922) 250 pp. ToC
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1750 to 1900
Book
MacBeath, George – Kings Landing: Country Life in Early Canada (Oxford Univ. Press, 1979) 75 pp. no ToC
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1800’s
Books
Russell, Loris – Everyday Life in Colonial Canada [1608-1867] (Batsford, 1973) 200 pp. ToC
Ballantyne, Robert M. – Hudson Bay; or Everyday Life in North America (Thomas Nelson, 1910) 235 pp. ToC
Stamer, W. – The Gentleman Emigrant: his Daily Life, Sports & Pastimes in Canada, Australia & the United States, vol. 2 (Tinsley Brothers, 1874) 310 pp. ToC
Green, Valerie – Above Stairs: Social Life in Upper Class Victoria: 1843-1918 (Sono Nis Press, 1995) 200 pp. ToC
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1800 to 1850
Hounsome, Eric – Toronto in 1810 (the Town & Buildings) (Coles, 1975) ToC
Duncan, Dorothy – Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Everyday Life in Upper Canada, 1812-1814 (Toronto: Dundurn, 2012) 240 pp. ToC
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1850 to 1900
Book
Turner, George H. – Before the Council: Social Life in Victoria (1891) 70 pp. no ToC
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Soldiers
Slater, James G. – Three Years under the Canadian Flag as a Cavalry Soldier: a Peep behind the Scenes of Political, Municipal, Military & Social Life in Canada (1892) 250 pp. ToC
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1900 to 1950
Green, Valerie – Above Stairs: Social Life in Upper Class Victoria: 1843-1918 (Sono Nis Press, 1995) 200 pp. ToC
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1950 to 2000
Book
ed. Park, Julian – The Culture of Contemporary Canada (Cornell Univ. Press, 1957) 435 pp.
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Photos
A Day in the Life of Canada Photographed by 100 of the World’s leading Photojournalists on June 8, 1984 (Collins Publishers, 1984) 220 pp.
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Elderly
ed. Altergott, Karen – Daily Life in Later Life: Comparative Perspectives (Sage Publications, 1988) 250 pp. ToC
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Computers
Article
Deschenes, Lucie – “Computers in Daily Life: Canadians’ Behavior & Atitudes regarding Computer Technology” (Organizational Research Directorate at the Canadian Workplace Automation Research Centre of the federal Department of Communications, 1988) 30 pp. ToC
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Contemporary
Kranc, Benjamin & Karina Roman – Live & Work in Canada: Comprehensive, Up-to-Date, Practical Information about Everyday Life (Oxford: How to Books, 2009) 190 pp. ToC
Wills, Richard H. – Human Instincts, Everyday Life & the Brain: a Paradigm for Understanding Behavior, vol. 6, Everyday Life on Prince Edward Island, pt. 1 (The Book Emporium, 2014) 765 pp. ToC
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Nova Scotia
1750 to 1984
Article
Elliott, Shirley – “Domestic Life in Early Halifax” (Nova Scotia Museum, 1976) 16 pp. no ToC
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Book
Newton, Pamela – The Cape Breton Book of Days: a Daily Journal of the Life & Times of an Island (Univ. College of Cape Breton Press, 1984) 220 pp. no ToC This is laid out by calendar day with a handful of events from various historic centuries which occured on that date.
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Central America & the Caribbean
1500 to 1850
Jeferson, Ann & Paul Lokken – Daily Life in Colonial Latin America [1500-1850] (Greenwood, 2011) 255 pp. ToC
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1800 to 2000
ed. Santoni, Pedro – Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Latin America from the Wars of Independence to the Central American Civil Wars (Greenwood Press, 2008) 355 pp. ToC
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1900 to 1950
Dangaix, William – How we [America] affect Latin America’s Daily Life: Latin America, no. 2 (Institute for Public Service, [1920?]) 50 pp. no ToC
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Mexico
1800’s
Book
Wasserman, Mark – Everyday Life & Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Men, Women & War (University of New Mexico Press, 2000) 265 pp. ToC
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1850 to 1900
Aimard, Gustave – The Red Track: a Story of Social Life in Mexico [1854-1862] (Charles Henry Clarke, 1862) 350 pp. ToC
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1950 to 2000
Torres, Gabriel – The Force of Irony: Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers (Oxford: Berg, 1997) 245 pp. ToC
Fantini, Alvino & Beatriz de Fantini – Living in Mexico: How to Feel at Home, make Friends & Enjoy Everyday Life (Pro Lingua Associates, 1994) 65 pp. ToC
Szanto, George – Inside the Statues of Saints: Mexican Writers on Culture & Corruption, Politics & Daily Life (Vehicule Press, 1996) 150 pp. ToC
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Contemporary
Books
Christie, Maria Elisa – Kitchenspace: Women, Fiestas & Everyday Life in Central Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2008) 330 pp.
Staudt, Kathleen – Violence & Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear & Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez (Univ. of Texas Press, 2008) 210 pp. ToC
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Mexico City
Cory, Steve – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Mexico City (Runestone Press, 1999) 65 pp. ToC
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Puerto Rico
1900 to 1950
Roy-Fequiere, Magali – Women, Creole Identity & Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico (Temple Univ. Press, 2004) 320 pp. ToC
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Haiti
Contemporary
Curnutte, Mark – A Promise in Haiti: a Reporter’s Notes on Families & Daily Lives (Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 2011) 265 pp.
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Cuba
In the 1900’s
Rosendahl, Mona – Inside the Revolution: Everyday Life in Socialist Cuba (Cornell University Press, 1997) 205 pp.
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1989 to Present
Weinreb, Amelia R. – Cuba in the Shadow of Change: Daily Life in the Twilight of the Revolution (Univ. Press of Florida, 2009) ToC
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Jamaica
1865-1915
Eric, Allan – “Buckra” Land: Two Weeks in Jamaica: details of a voyage to the West Indies, day by day, and a tour of Jamaica, step by step (1896) 120 pp. ToC
ed. Mitchell, Madeleine – Selected Vital Records from the Jamaican Daily Gleaner: Life on the Island of Jamaica as seen through Newspaper Extracts, vol. 1: 1865-1915 (Heritage Books, 2007) 580 pp. ToC
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Barbados
In the 1900’s
ed. Dann, Graham – Everyday Life in Barbados: a Sociological Perspective (1976) 190 pp. ToC
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Honduras
Gold, Janet – Culture & Customs of Honduras (Greenwood Press, 2009) 200 pp.
Schmalzbauer, Leah – Striving & Surviving: a Daily Life Analysis of Honduran Transnational Families (Routledge, 2005) 140 pp.
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Panama Canal
Around 1900
Weir, Hugh – The Conquest of the Isthmus: the Men who are Building the Panama Canal–their Daily Lives, Perils & Adventures (Putnam’s Sons, 1909) 325 pp. ToC
The Panama Canal was completed in 1914.
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Britain
1485 to Present
Soldiers
De Watteville, Herman G. – The British Soldier: his Daily Life from Tudor to Modern Times (Putnam’s Sons, 1955) 285 pp. ToC
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1500 to 1850
At Sea
Volo, Dorothy & James – Daily Life in the Age of Sail (Greenwood Press)
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1660 to 1845
Berry, Mary – A Comparative View of Social Life in England & France, from the Restoration of Charles the Second [1660] to the Present Time, vol. 1 (1660-1789), 2 (1789-1844) new ed. (London: Bentley, 1844) ToC 1, 2
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1700 to 1900
Women
Hill, Georgiana – Women in English Life from Mediaeval to Modern Times, vol. 1 (Medieval, Renaissance, 1700’s), 2 (1700’s-1800’s) (London: Bentley & Son, 1896) 370 pp. ToC 1, 2
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1750 to 1800
Jackson, F.J. Foakes – Social Life in England 1750-1850 (Macmillan, 1916) 355 pp. ToC
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1800 to 2000
eds. Corr, Helen & Lynn Jamieson – Politics of Everyday Life: Continuity & Change in Work & the Family (St. Martin’s Press, 1990) 265 pp. ToC
Casella, Eleanor & Sarah Croucher – The Alderley Sandhills Project: an Archaeology of Community Life in (Post)-Industrial England (Manchester Univ. Press, 2010) 255 pp. ToC
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1800’s
Short & Friendly
Chamberlin, E.R. – Everyday Life in Victorian Times (Simon & Schuster, 1993) 58 pp. ToC
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Primary Source
Waddy, Samuel – The English Echo: a Practical Guide to the Conversation & Customs of Every-day Life in Great-Britain (Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Violet, 1859) 215 pp. no ToC
This was written for a German audience “to obviate the necessity of a residence in England, by throwing the reader as far as possible into the circumstances of common life.” (Intro)
Thackeray, William M. – Thackerayana, Notes & Anecdotes… Depicting humorous incidents in his school life, and favourite scenes and characters in the books of his every-day reading (Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1875) 545 pp. ToC
Thackeray (1811–1863) was an English novelist and illustrator.
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Secondary Sources
Hughes, Kristine – The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Regency & Victorian England from 1811-1901 (Writer’s Digest Books: 1997) 260 pp. ToC
Reader’s Digest – Life in the Victorian Age in Journeys into the Past (Reader’s Digest Association, 1993) 155 pp. ToC
ed. Creation, Heather – Victorian Diaries: the Daily Lives of Victorian Men & Women (London: Mitchell Beazley, 2001) 140 pp. ToC
Pres, Allan – Lost Words & Lost Worlds: Modernity & the Language of Everyday Life in Late-Nineteenth-Century Stockholm (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990) 330 pp.
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Photo Album
Quennell, Peter – The Day before Yesterday: a Photographic Album of Daily Life in Victorian & Edwardian Britain [1837-1910] (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978) 250 pp. ToC
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Aristocratic Life
ed. Vincent, John – The Later Derby Diaries: Home Rule, Liberal Unionism & Aristocratic Life in Late Victorian England (Univ. of Bristol, 1981) 340 pp. ToC
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Families
Wood, Richard – Family Life in Victorian Britain (Wayland, 1994) 35 pp. ToC
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Growing Up
Short & Friendly
Harnett, Penelope – A Day in the Life of a Victorian Child (Heinemann, 1997) 17 pp. ToC
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Trades
Huggett, Frank E. – A Day in the Life of a Victorian Factory Worker (Allen & Unwin, 1973) 80 pp.
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Police & Soldiers
Books
Garforth, John – A Day in the Life of a Victorian Policeman (Allen & Unwin, 1974) 90 pp. ToC
Drayson, Captain Alfred W. – The Young Dragoon; or, Every Day Life of a Soldier (London: Ward, Lock & Tyler) 285 pp. ToC
This is a semi-autobiographical account of Victorian era military life.
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1800 to 1850
Jackson, F.J. Foakes – Social Life in England 1750-1850 (Macmillan, 1916) 355 pp. ToC
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1850 to 1900
Primary Source
Bartley, George – Domestic Economy: Thrift in Every-Day Life… (London: C. Kegan Paul, 1878) 295 pp. ToC
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Secondary Sources
ed. Chant, Colin
Science, Technology & Everyday Life, 1870-1950 (Routledge, 1989) 385 pp. ToC
Sources for the Study of Science, Technology & Everyday Life 1870-1950 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988) 200 pp. ToC
Life in the Victorian Village: the Daily News Survey of 1891, vol. 1 (Caliban Books, 1999) 220 pp. no ToC
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Railroad
Gordon, W.J. – Every-Day Life on the Railroad 2nd ed. (Religious Tract Society, 1898) 190 pp. ToC
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Army
A British Officer – Social Life in the British Army (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899) 130 pp. no ToC
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1900’s
Books
ed. Massingberd, Hugh – The Daily Telegraph Fifth Book of Obituaries: 20th Century Lives (Macmillan, 1999) 520 pp. no ToC
Inside Flap: “The ‘lives’ chosen represent a remarkable cross-section of twentieth century experience… the shrewd character sketches tend to be of dowagers rather than dictators, boffins rather than bureaucrats, popinjays rather than philosophers.”
Moran, Joe – Queuing for Beginners: the Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime (Profile, 2007) 285 pp. ToC
Frankenberg, Ronald – Communities in Britain: Social Life in Town & Country (Penguin, 1975) 310 pp. ToC
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During War
ed. Atkin, Nicholas – Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe (Greenwood Press, 2008) 275 pp.
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1900 to 1940’s
Books
ed. Chant, Colin – Science, Technology & Everyday Life, 1870-1950 (Routledge, 1989) 385 pp. ToC
ed. Chant, Colin – Sources for the Study of Science, Technology & Everyday Life 1870-1950 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988) 200 pp. ToC
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Photo Albums
Quennell, Peter – The Day before Yesterday: a Photographic Album of Daily Life in Victorian & Edwardian Britain [1837-1910] (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978) 250 pp. ToC
Cameron, James – Memory Lane: a Photographic Album of Daily Life in Britain, 1930-1953 (Dent & Sons, 1980) 300 pp. ToC
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Families
Family Life in Britain 1900 to 1950 (Futura, 2007) 190 pp. ToC
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War, Nurse
Laurence, E.C. – Nurse’s Life in War & Peace [in the Boer War, 1899-1902, of South Africa, and in England] (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1912) 330 pp. ToC
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1945 to 2000
Short & Friendly
Williams, Brian – Life in Post-War Britain in Unlocking History (Heinemann, 2010) 35 pp. ToC
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Books
eds. Hope, Tim & Richard Sparks – Crime, Risk & Insecurity: Law & Order in Everyday Life & Political Discourse (Routledge, 2000) 275 pp. ToC
Garfield, Simon – Our Hidden Lives: the Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain (Ebury Press, 2005) 540 pp. ToC
Quinn, Tom – Jam Tomorrow: Memories of Everyday Life in Post War Britain, 1945-1951 (Reader’s Digest, 2009) 250 pp. ToC
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Photo Albums
Cameron, James – Memory Lane: a Photographic Album of Daily Life in Britain, 1930-1953 (Dent & Sons, 1980) 300 pp. ToC
Green, Benny – Yesterday: a Photographic Album of Daily Life in Britain, 1953-1970 (J.M. Dent & Sons, 1982) 285 pp. ToC
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Families
Parsons, Martin – Family Life in a Christian Home (Falcon, 1972) 105 pp. ToC
Family Life in Britain 1900 to 1950 (Futura, 2007) 190 pp. ToC
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Women
Tivers, Jacqueline – Women Attached: the Daily Lives of Women with Young Children (Croom Helm, 1985) 380 pp. ToC
eds. Garcia-Ramon & Monk – Women of the European Union: the Politics of Work & Daily Life (Routledge, 1996) 300 pp. ToC
Westwood, Sallie – All Day, Every Day: Factory & Family in the Making of Women’s Lives (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1985) 275 pp. ToC Back Cover
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Growing Up
Barnes, Thompson, Daniel & Burchardt – Growing Up in Step Families (Clarendon Press, 1994) 340 pp.
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Elderly
ed. Altergott, Karen – Daily Life in Later Life: Comparative Perspectives (Sage Publications, 1988) 250 pp. ToC
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Schools
Webb, Simon – The Best Days of our Lives: School Life in Post-War Britain (Stroud: History, 2013) 160 pp. ToC
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Trains
Brown, Murray – A Day in the Life of British Rail (Guild Publishing, 1989) 185 pp. ToC
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Contemporary
Finance
Langley, Paul – The Everyday Life of Global Finance: Saving & Borrowing in Anglo-America (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008) 315 pp.
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Islam
Contemporary
Gole, Nilufer – The Daily Lives of Muslims: Islam & Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe (Zed, 2017) 365 pp. ToC
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England
1750 to 1800
Fletcher, Ronald – The Parkers at Saltram, 1769-89: Everyday Life in an Eighteenth-Century House (British Broadcasting Corporation, 1970) 230 pp. ToC
Adkins, Roy & Lesley – Jane Austen’s England [1775-1817]: Daily Life in the Georgian & Regency Periods (Penguin Books, 2014) 455 pp. ToC
Parreaux, Andre – Daily Life in England in the Reign of George II [1738–1820]
Hall, H.R. Wilton – Social Life in England through the Centuries (Blackie & Son, 1927) 250 pp. ToC
Synge, M.B. – A Short History of Social Life in England (Hodder & Stoughton, 1922) 445 pp. ToC
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1800’s
Primary Source
An Eton Boy – A Day of My Life; or Every-day Experiences at Eton (London: Sampson Low, 1877) 185 pp. ToC
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Secondary Sources
Mitchell, Sally – Daily Life in Victorian England 2nd ed. (Greenwood Press, 1996; 2009) 330 pp. ToC
Wilson, Laura – Daily Life in a Victorian House (Hamlyn, 1993) 50 pp.
Hibbert, Christopher – The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Victorian England (American Heritage Publishing Co., 1975) 120 pp. ToC
Poole, Daniel – What Jane Austen Ate & Charles Dickens Knew: from Fox Hunting to Whist–the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England (Touchstone, 1993) 405 pp. ToC
Hall, H.R. Wilton – Social Life in England through the Centuries (Blackie & Son, 1927) 250 pp. ToC
Life in Charles Dickens’s England
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1800 to 1850
Books
Adkins, Roy & Lesley – Jane Austen’s England [1775-1817]: Daily Life in the Georgian & Regency Periods (Penguin Books, 2014) 455 pp. ToC
Parreaux, Andre – Daily Life in England in the Reign of George II [1738–1820]
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1850 to 1900
Primary Sources
Bowman, Anne – The Common Things of Every-Day Life: a Book of Home Wisdom for Mothers & Daughters (London: Routledge & Co., 1857) 180 pp. ToC
Beever, W. Holt – The Daily Life of our Farm [in England, 1865-1870] (London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1871) 330 pp. ToC
Louis, Arthur – “Dollars or Sense?” A Tale of Every-Day Life in England & America (Brentano, 1886) 385 pp. ToC
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Schools
Pascoe, Charles E. – Everyday Life in our Public Schools: Sketched by Head-Scholars of Eton, Winchester, Westminster, Shrewsbury, Harrow, Rugby, Charterhouse… (London: Griffith & Farran [1880?]) 330 pp. ToC
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1900’s
Sex
Book
Szreter, Simon – Sex before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010) 465 pp. ToC
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1900 to 1950
Books
ed. Chant, Colin – Science, Technology & Everyday Life, 1870-1950 (Routledge, 1989) 385 pp. ToC
Hartley, Marie & Joan Ingilby – Yorkshire Album: Photographs of Everyday Life 1900-1950 (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1990) 185 pp. ToC
Hall, H.R. Wilton – Social Life in England through the Centuries (Blackie & Son, 1927) 250 pp. ToC
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Nuns
Raphael, Francis – The Daily Life of a Religious (Sands & Company, 1914) 120 pp. ToC
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1950 to 2000
Book
Lacey, Roy – Cowpasture: the Everyday Life of an English Allotment (London: David & Charles, 1980) 155 pp. ToC
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1960’s
The Beatles
ed. Schultheiss, Tom – A Day in the Life: the Beatles Day-By-Day, 1960-1970 (Pierian Press, 1980) 355 pp. ToC
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Farming
eds. Bullen, Sheppy & Watson – Farming day by day – the 1960s: as recorded in the Daily Mail by John Winter… (Old Pond, 2002) 206 pp. no ToC
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Drug Users
Contemporary
Book
Neale, Nettleton, Pickering – The Everyday Lives of [40] Recovering Heroin Users [in Southern England] (RSA Projects, 2012) 200 pp.
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Sex
Whole of History
Bloch, Ivan – Sexual Life in England Past & Present tr. William H. Forstern (London: ARCO Publications, 1958) 675 pp. ToC
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1900’s
Szreter, Simon – Sex before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010) 465 pp. ToC
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City of London
Whole or Most of History
Short & Friendly
Toht, Betony & David – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern London (Runestone Press, 2000) 65 pp. ToC
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Book
Richardson, John – London & its People: a Social History from Medieval Times to the Present Day (Barrie & Jenkins, 1995) 360 pp. ToC
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1800’s
Books
Flanders, Judith – The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London [1812-1870] (Thomas Dunne Books, 2014) 555 pp.
Bartlett, David – London by Day & Night: or, Men & Things in the Great Metropolis (Hurst, 1851) 330 pp. ToC
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1960’s
Davies, Hunter – A Life in the Day: Memories of Sixties London, lots of writing, the Beatles and my beloved wife (Simon & Schuster, 2017) 385 pp.
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Scotland
Whole History
Rogers, Charles – Social Life in Scotland from Early to Recent Times, vol. 1, 2, 3 (Edinburgh: Paterson, 1884) 420 pp. ToC 1, 2, 3
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1800’s
eds. Griffiths & Morton – A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) 335 pp. ToC
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1850 to 1900
Stewart, Charles – Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal & Social Life in Edinburgh & London 1850-1900 (Blackwood & Sons, 1901) 205 pp. ToC
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Ireland
1900 to 1950
A Real Paddy – Real Life in Ireland : or, the day and night scenes, rovings… of Brian Boru, esq…. exhibiting a real picture of characters, manners, etc., in high and low life in Dublin and various parts of Ireland… (London: Methuen, 1904) 360 pp. ToC
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1950 to 2000
Photos
A Day in the Life of Ireland: Photographed by 75 of the World’s Leading Photojournalists on One Day, May 17, 1991 (Collins, 1995) 220 pp. no ToC
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Contemporary
Daly, Mary & Grace Kelly – Families & Poverty: Everyday Life on a Low Income (Policy Press, 2015) 230 pp. ToC
Upton, Pat – City Portraits: 100 Portraits of Everyday Life in Dublin (Dublin, 2013) 170 pp. ToC
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City of Belfast
Youth
Jenkins, Richard – Lads, Citizens, & Ordinary Kids: Working-class Youth Life-styles in Belfast (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983) 170 pp. ToC
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City of Dublin
Around 1900
Fennell, Desmond – Bloomsway: a Day in the Life of Dublin [in 1904] (Poolbeg, 1990) 185 pp.
This work covers the single day (June 16, 1904) and location which James Joyce’s Ulysses is occupied with.
A Real Paddy – Real Life in Ireland : or, the day and night scenes, rovings… of Brian Boru, esq…. exhibiting a real picture of characters, manners, etc., in high and low life in Dublin and various parts of Ireland… (London: Methuen, 1904) 360 pp. ToC
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France
1500 to 1850
At Sea
Volo, Dorothy & James – Daily Life in the Age of Sail (Greenwood Press)
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1660 to 1845
Berry, Mary – A Comparative View of Social Life in England & France, from the Restoration of Charles the Second [1660] to the Present Time, vol. 1 (1660-1789), 2 (1789-1844) new ed. (London: Bentley, 1844) ToC 1, 2
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French Revolution
Robiquet, Jean – Daily Life in the French Revolution (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964) 270 pp. ToC
Auslander, Leora – Cultural Revolutions: Everyday Life & Politics in Britain, North America & France (Univ. of California Press, 2009) 245 pp. ToC
This treats of the puritan revolution and civil war in England (1642-1651), the Revolutionary War in America (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-1799).
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Early 1800’s
Chapter
Conner, Susan – ch. 4, “Daily Life in Napoleonic France” in The Age of Napoleon (Greenwood Press, 2004), pp. 69-89
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Books
Robiquet, Jean – Daily Life in France under Napoleon [1799-1815] (London: Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1962) 240 pp. ToC
Masson, Frederic – Napoleon at Home: the Daily Life of the Emperor at the Tuileriers, vol. 1 tr. James Matthew (London: Grevel & Co., 1894) 265 pp. ToC
Whitehurst, Felix – Court & Social Life in France Under Napoleon the Third [1852-1870], vol. 1, 2 (1873) 358 pp.
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Historical Fiction
Muhlback, L. [Klara (Muller) Mundt] – Queen Hortense; a Picture of Life in the Time of Napoleon (Lovell, 1888) 215 pp. ToC
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1870 to 1950
ed. Chant, Colin – Sources for the Study of Science, Technology & Everyday Life 1870-1950 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988) 200 pp. ToC
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1890’s
Article
de San Carlos, Lola – “Middle-Class Life in France” in The North American Review, vol. 156 (1893), pp. 478-84
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1900’s
During War
ed. Atkin, Nicholas – Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe (Greenwood Press, 2008) 275 pp.
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1900 to 1950
Photo Album
Couderc, Jean-Mary – A Village in France: Louis Clergeau’s Photographic Portrait of Daily Life in Pontlevoy, 1902-1936 (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997) 140 pp. ToC
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1950 to 2000
Women
eds. Garcia-Ramon & Monk – Women of the European Union: the Politics of Work & Daily Life (Routledge, 1996) 300 pp. ToC
.
Islam
Contemporary
Gole, Nilufer – The Daily Lives of Muslims: Islam & Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe (Zed, 2017) 365 pp. ToC
.
City of Paris
Whole of History
Short & Friendly
Hoban, Sarah – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Paris (Runestone Press, 2001) 65 pp. ToC
.
1800 to 1900
O’Meara, Kathleen – Madame Mohl: her Salon & her Friends. A Study of Social Life in Paris [1830 to 1883] (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891) 320 pp. ToC
.
1850 to 1900
Paris & the Countryside: Modern Life in Late-19th-Century France (Portland Museum of Art, 2006) 145 pp. ToC
Abbot, Mary – A Woman’s Paris: a handbook of Every-Day Living in the French Capital (Small, Maynard & Co., 1900) 285 pp. ToC
.
.
Spain
1900 to 1950
City of Madrid
Article
Lindegaard, Madeleine – “Family Life in Madrid (1922-1936), based on Recollections of Henri & Alice Lindegaard” (2026) 20 pp.
.
1950 to 2000
Photos
A Day in the Life of Spain: Photographed by 100 of the World’s leading Photojournalists on one day, May , 1987 (Collins Publishers, 1988) 220 pp. ToC
.
.
Southern Europe
1500 to 1850
At Sea
Volo, Dorothy & James – Daily Life in the Age of Sail (Greenwood Press)
.
1850 to 1900
War
Article
Matanov, Giacco, Bogic, Ajdukovic, Franciskovic, Galeazzi, Maria; Kucukalic, Lecic-Tosevski, Morina, Popovski, Schutzwohl, Priebe – “Subjective Quality of Life in War-Affected Populations” in BMC Public Health, vol. 13, no. 624 (2013) 10 pp.
This covers five Balkan and three Western European countries, the research being carried out in 2005-2006.
.
Book
Dwight, Henry – Turkish [& Balkan] Life in the Time of [the Russo-Turkish] War [of 1876–1879] (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1881) 440 pp. ToC
.
1900’s
During War
ed. Atkin, Nicholas – Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe (Greenwood Press, 2008) 275 pp.
.
1950 to 2000
Women
eds. Garcia-Ramon & Monk – Women of the European Union: the Politics of Work & Daily Life (Routledge, 1996) 300 pp. ToC
.
Basque
In the 1900’s
Book
ed. Ott, Sandra – War, Exile, Justice & Everyday Life, 1936-1946 (Reno, NV: Center for Basque Studies) 410 pp. ToC
.
Italy
See also on the Renaissance
1700’s
Vaussard, Maurice – Daily Life in 18th Century Italy (Allen & Unwin, 1962) 230 pp. ToC
.
1950 to 2000
Photos
Day in the Life of Italy: Photographed by 100 of the World’s leading Photojournalists on one day, April 27, 1990 (Collins, 1995) 220 pp. no ToC
.
Women
eds. Scaraffia & Zarri – Women & Faith: Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present (Harvard Univ. Press, 1999) 420 pp. ToC
.
City of Rome
Eaton, Charlotte A. – Rome in the Nineteenth Century: containing a complete account of the ruins of the ancient city, the remains of the middle ages, and the monuments of modern times; with remarks on the fine arts, on the state of society, and on the religious ceremonies, manners, and customs, of the modern Romans in a series of letters written during a residence at Rome, in the years 1817 and 1818, vol. 1, 2, 3 (Edinburgh: Constable, 1822) ToC 1, 2, 3
Barghusen, Joan – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Rome (Runestone Press, 1999) 60 pp.
.
Bosnia
1950 to 2000
War
Yancey, Diane – Life in War-Torn Bosnia in The Way People Live (1996) 110 pp. ToC
.
Greece
Athens
Short & Friendly
Kotapish, Dawn – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Athens (Runestone Press, 2001) 65 pp. ToC
Kovacs, Vic – The Culture of Athens (Power Kids Press, 2017) 30 pp.
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Bulgaria
Article
CIA – “Bulgaria: Pattern of Daily Life in Pleven: Housing, Working Hours, Purchase of Food” (1954) 3 pp.
.
Islam
Contemporary
Gole, Nilufer – The Daily Lives of Muslims: Islam & Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe (Zed, 2017) 365 pp. ToC
.
.
Central Europe
1900’s
During War
ed. Atkin, Nicholas – Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe (Greenwood Press, 2008) 275 pp.
.
1950 to 2000
Women
eds. Garcia-Ramon & Monk – Women of the European Union: the Politics of Work & Daily Life (Routledge, 1996) 300 pp. ToC
.
Contemporary
Islam
Gole, Nilufer – The Daily Lives of Muslims: Islam & Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe (Zed, 2017) 365 pp. ToC
.
Germany
See also on the World Wars below.
1600 to 1945
Jews
ed. Kaplan, Marion – Jewish Daily Life in Germany (Oxford Univ. Press, 2005) 535 pp.
Pollack, Herman – Jewish Folkways in Germanic Lands (1648-1806): Studies in Aspects of Daily Life (M.I.T. Press, 1976) 420 pp. ToC
.
1800’s
City of Munich
Wilberforce, Edward – Social Life in Munich (London: Allen & Co., 1863) 350 pp. ToC
.
1800 to 1850
Howitt, William – Life in Germany; or, Scenes, Impressions & Every-Day Life of the Germans, including the Popular Songs, Sports & Habits of the Students of the Universities (London: Routledge & Co., 1849) 515 pp. ToC
.
1850 to 1950
ed. Chant, Colin – Sources for the Study of Science, Technology & Everyday Life 1870-1950 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988) 200 pp. ToC
.
1945 to 2000
Lesson Plans
Blankenship, Glen & D. William Tinkler – Cultural Reflections: Work, Politics & Daily Life in Germany: Social Studies Lessons (Goethe House, NY: American Association of Teachers of German, 1994) 90 pp. ToC
.
Article
Stern, Susan – “The Structure of Cultural Life in Germany” (Inter Nationes, 1995) 28 pp. ToC
.
Books
Thomas, Marcel – Local Lives, Parallel Histories: Villagers & Everyday Life in the Divided Germany [1945-1990] (Oxford University Press, 2020) 320 pp.
Katsiaficas, George – The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements & the Decolonization of Everyday Life (NJ: Humanities Press, 1997) 310 pp. ToC
Feinstein, Joshua – The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989 (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2002) 345 pp.
Cultural Life in the Federal Republic of Germany (Inter Nationes Bonn, 1993) 260 pp. ToC
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Poland
Mid-1900’s
CIA – “Poland: Daily Life in Polande: Work Conditions / Use of Alcohol / Forms of Entertainment / General Morale” (1954) 3 pp.
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Austria
1750 to 1830
Brion, Marcel – Daily Life in the Vienna of Mozart & Schubert [1756-1828] (Macmillan, 1962) 315 pp. ToC
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Hungary
WWI
Houlihan, Patrick – Catholicism & the Great War: Religion & Everyday Life in Germany & Austrai-Hungary, 1914-1922 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017) 300 pp. ToC
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After WWII to 2000
ed. Halasz, Zoltan – Cultural Life in Hungary (Pannonia, 1966) 365 pp. ToC
Valuch, Tibor – Everyday Life under Communism & After, 1945-2000 tr. Maya J. Lo Bello (CEU Press, 2021) 500 pp. ToC
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Elderly
ed. Altergott, Karen – Daily Life in Later Life: Comparative Perspectives (Sage Publications, 1988) 250 pp. ToC
.
.
Eastern Europe
1900’s
Scott, Isabel – Baltic Summers, Russian Winter: a Life in War, Revolution & Music (Sealilt, 2017) 240 pp. ToC
.
1960’s
Blumenfield, Yorick – Seesaw: Cultural Life in Eastern Europe (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968) 290 pp.
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Northern Europe
1500 to 1850
At Sea
Volo, Dorothy & James – Daily Life in the Age of Sail (Greenwood Press)
.
1900’s
During War
ed. Atkin, Nicholas – Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe (Greenwood Press, 2008) 275 pp.
.
1950 to 2000
Women
eds. Garcia-Ramon & Monk – Women of the European Union: the Politics of Work & Daily Life (Routledge, 1996) 300 pp. ToC
.
Contemporary
Islam
Gole, Nilufer – The Daily Lives of Muslims: Islam & Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe (Zed, 2017) 365 pp. ToC
.
Norway
1900’s
Dahl, Gundel K. – A Family Diary: Everyday Life in Norway (Johan Grundt Tanum Forlag, 1971) 69 pp. no ToC
.
Oresund
Contemporary
ed. Karrholm, Mattias – Urban Squares: Spatio-Temporal Studies of Design & Everyday Life in the Oresund Region (Nordic Academic Press, 2015) 140 pp. ToC
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Denmark
Contemporary
eds. Hedegaard, Mariane & Marilyn Fleer – Play, Learning & Children’s Development: Everyday Life in Families & Transition to School (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013) 230 pp. This studies two families each in Denmark and Australia.
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Finland
1900 to 1950
Harmaja, Leo – Effects of the War [WWI] on Economic & Social Life in Finland (Yale Univ. Press, 1933) 140 pp. ToC
.
1950 to 2000
Sex
Kontula & Haavio-Mannila – Sexual Pleasures: Enhancement of Sex Life in Finland, 1971-1992 (Dartmouth, 1995) 300 pp. ToC
.
Elderly
ed. Altergott, Karen – Daily Life in Later Life: Comparative Perspectives (Sage Publications, 1988) 250 pp. ToC
.
Contemporary
Bjork, Stephanie – Somalis Abroad: Clan & Everyday Life in Finland (Univ. of Illinoise Press, 2017) 210 pp. ToC
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Migrants
Jauhianinen, Jussi & Miriam Tedeschi – Undocumented Migrants & their Everyday Lives: the Case of Finland (Springer, 2021) 180 pp. ToC
.
Netherlands
1950 to 2000
Elderly
ed. Altergott, Karen – Daily Life in Later Life: Comparative Perspectives (Sage Publications, 1988) 250 pp. ToC
.
Iceland
1950 to 2000
Palsson, Gisli & E. Paul Durrenberger – Images of contemporary Iceland: Everyday Lives & Global Contexts (Univ. of Iowa Press, 1996) 285 pp. ToC
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Arctic
Inuit
1945 to 2010
Stern, Pamela – Daily Life of the Inuit (Greenwood Press) 235 pp.
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Voyagers
Around 1850
Snow, W. Parker – Voyage of the Prince Albert in Search of Sir John Franklin: a Narrative of Every-day Life in the Arctic Seas (London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1851) 435 pp. ToC
Munger, James – Two Years in the Pacific & Arctic Oceans & China: being a journal of every day life on board ship, interesting information in regard to the inhabitants of different countries, and the exciting events peculiar to a whaling voyage (Galleon Press, 1967) 95 pp. no ToC
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Russia & the Soviet Union
1721 to 1917
Books
Bucher, Greta – Daily Life in Imperial Russia (Greenwood Press, 2008) 260 pp.
Freeze, ChaeRan & Jay Harris – Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia: Select Documents [1772-1914] (Brandeis Univ. Press, 2013) 655 pp.
.
Science & Technology
Chapter
ed. Chant, Colin – “Russia: Technology Transfer & Social Change” in Science, Technology & Everyday Life, 1870-1950 (Routledge, 1989), pp. 362-84
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1891 to 1917
Books
Troyat, Henri – Daily Life in Russia under the Last Tsar [1894-1917] (Macmillan, 1962) 250 pp.
Bobrof-Hajal, Anne – Working Women in Russia under the Hunger Tsars [1891-1917]: Political Activism & Daily Life (Carlson Publishing Inc., 1994) 370 pp. ToC
Tian-Shanskaia, Olga S. – Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia (Indiana Univ. Press, 1993) 200 pp. ToC
.
Army
Pares, Bernard – Day by Day with the Russian Army, 1914-15, by Bernard Pares, Official British observer with the Russian armies in the Field (Houghton Mifflin, 1915) 300 pp. no ToC
.
1900’s
eds. Chatterjee, Ransel, Cavender & Petrone – Everyday Life in Russia Past & Present (Indiana Univ. Press, 2015) 440 pp. ToC
Eaton, Katherine – Daily Life in the Soviet Union (Greenwood Press)
ed. Millar, James – Politics, Work & Daily Life in the USSR [1922-1987]: a Survey of Former Soviet Citizens (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987) 440 pp. ToC
Scott, Isabel – Baltic Summers, Russian Winter: a Life in War, Revolution & Music (Sealilt, 2017) 240 pp. ToC
.
1917 to 1953
Articles
CIA – “USSR (Latvia): Town of Riga: Daily Life” (1951) 6 pp.
Rajabovich, Pardaev – “Soviet Government’s Attitude to National Culture & Problems of Cultural Life in Uzbekistan (Example of 1945-1950)” in Central Asian Journal of Social Sciences & History, vol. 4, issue 10 (Oct. 2023) 3 pp.
Curtis, Charlotte – “The Way People Life” in ed. Harrison Salisbury, The Soviet Union: the Fifty Years (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967), pp. 33-59
.
Books
eds. Kiaer, Christina & Eric Naiman – Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia (Indiana Univ. Press, 2006) 310 pp. ToC
Johnston, Timothy – Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour & Everyday Life under Stalin 1939-1953 (Oxford Univ. Press, 2011) 300 pp.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila – Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930’s (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999) 310 pp. ToC
Vavilov, Snow, Capon, Marshall, Yagolim & Petrovsky – Cultural Life in the Soviet Union (International Publishing House, 1947) 150 pp. ToC
.
Science & Technology
Chapter
ed. Chant, Colin – “Russia: Technology Transfer & Social Change” in Science, Technology & Everyday Life, 1870-1950 (Routledge, 1989), pp. 362-84
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Labor Camps
Novel
One Day in the life [in 1951] of Ivan Denisovich [in a labor camp] (Praeger, 1963) 240 pp.
.
1917 to 1928
Fulop-Miller, Rene – The Mind & Face of Bolshevism: an Examination of Cultural Life in Soviet Russia (Knopf, 1928) 480 pp. ToC
.
1953-2001
Article
Curtis, Charlotte – “The Way People Life” in ed. Harrison Salisbury, The Soviet Union: the Fifty Years (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967), pp. 33-59
.
Books
Fisher, Lois – Survival in Russia: Chaos & Hope in Everyday Life (Westview Press, 1993) 195 pp. ToC
Robertson, Jenny – A Season in St. Petersburg: Everyday Life in Changing Russia (Oxford: Lion Publishing, 1994) 220 pp.
Piirainen, Timo – Towards a New Social Order in Russia: Transforming Structures & Everyday Life (Dartmouth, 1997) 265 pp. ToC
Inkeles, Alex & Raymond Bauer – The Soviet Citizen: Daily Life in a Totalitarian Society (Atheneum, 1968) 550 pp.
.
1980’s
Book
Dunn, Stephen – The Station Relay: Facts & Views on Daily Life in the Societ Union [1985-1986], vol. 1, no. 1-5 ed. Ethel Dunn (Highgate Road Social Science Research Station, 1986) 95 pp. ToC
.
Photos
A Day in the life of the Soviet Union Photographed by 100 of the World’s leading Photojournalists on one day, May 15, 1987 (Collins, 1987) 235 pp.
.
1991 to Present
Books
Winchell, Margaret – Armed wth Patience: Daily Life in Post-Soviet Russia [1991-1998] (Hermitage, 1998) 255 pp. ToC
Humphrey, Caroline – The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies after Socialism [1991-2001] (Cornell Univ. Press, 2002) 290 pp.
Randolph, Eleanor – Waking the Tempests: Ordinary Life in the New Russia (Simon & Schuster, 1996) 425 pp. ToC
.
City of Moscow
Toht, Patricia – Daily Life in Ancient [AD 1147+] & Modern Moscow (Runestone Press, 2000) 60 pp. ToC
.
.
Middle East
1950 to 2000
Book
eds. Stauth & Zubaida – Mass Culture, Popular Culture & Social Life in the Middle East (Campus Verlag, 1987) 305 pp.
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Diplomacy
Falle, Sam – My Lucky Life: in War, Revolution, Peace & Diplomacy (Oxford: Isis, 2004) 310 pp. ToC
.
Contemporary
Books
ed. Say, Ozan – The Modern Middle East: People, Culture & Everyday Life (Cognella Academic Publishing, 2016) 445 pp. ToC
Torstrick, Rebecca & Elizabeth Faier – Culture & Customs of the Arab Gulf States (Greenwood Press, 2009) 190 pp. ToC
.
Teenagers
ed. Mahdi, Ali A. – Teen Life in the Middle East (Greenwood Press, 2003) 285 pp. ToC
.
Turkey
1800 to 1900
Book
Ramsay, W.M. – Everyday Life in Turkey (Hodder & Stoughton, 1897) 315 pp. ToC
.
War
Dwight, Henry – Turkish [& Balkan] Life in the Time of [the Russo-Turkish] War [of 1876–1879] (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1881) 440 pp. ToC
.
Contemporary
Francis, Huw – Live & Work in Turkey: Comprehensive, Up-to-Date, Practical Information about Everyday Life (Oxford: How to Books, 2008) 240 pp. ToC
.
City of Istanbul
Whole of History
Bator, Robert – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Istanbul (Runestone Press, 2000) 65 pp. ToC
.
1800’s
The Imperial Harem of the Sultans: Daily Life at the Ciragan Palace during the 19th Century: Memoirs of Leyla (Saz) Hanimefendi tr. Landon Thomas (Hil Yayinlari, 2015) 285 pp. ToC
.
Israel
1850 to 1900
Photos
Stuart, Charles – Photo-Gravures of the Holy Land embracing Fifty Prominent Views illustrative of Bible History & Scenes in the Life of our Lord (Cranston & Stowe, 1891) 205 pp. no ToC
.
1875 to 1944
eds. Kark, Shilo & Hasan-Rokem – Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics & Culture (Brandeis Univ. Press, 2008) 445 pp. ToC
.
1900 to 1944
Books
Lees, G. Robinson – Village Life in Palestine: a Description of the Religion, Home Life, Manners, Customs, Characteristics & Superstitions of the Peasants of the Holy Land, with reference to the Bible, with Fifty Illustrations from Photographs (Longmans, Green & Co., 1905) 270 pp. ToC
Sykes, H. – A Soldier’s Handbook: Palestine & Jerusalem: Salient Points in the Geography, History & Present Day Life of the Holy Land (Hodder & Stoughton, 1917) 68 pp. ToC
.
1950 to 2000
Photos
A Day in the Life of Israel Photographed by more than 960 of the World’s Best Photojournalists on a Single Day (Collins Publishers, 1994) 220 pp. Locations
.
Growing Up
Holisher, Desider – Growing Up in Israel (Blue Star Book Club, 1963) 180 pp. ToC
.
Contemporary
Pearlman, Wendy – Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada [in the Gaza Strip, 2000-2005] (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003) 280 pp. ToC
Ochs, Juliana – Security & Suspicion: an Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) 210 pp.
.
City of Jerusalem
Ancient & Contemporary
Short & Friendly
Slavik, Diane – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Jerusalem Pre (Runestone Press, 2001) 62 pp. ToC
.
Contemporary
Ghosheh, Subhi – Jerusalem: Arab Social Life, Traditions & Everyday Pleasures (Olive Branch Press, 2013) 190 pp. ToC
.
Cyprus
Around 1900
Book
Stewart, Basil – My Experiences of Cyprus; being an account of the People, Mediæval Cities & Castles, Antiquities & History of the Island of Cyprus, to which is added a chapter on the present economic and political problems which affect the island as a dependency of the British empire (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1908) 360 pp. ToC
.
Egypt
1800’s
Lane-Poole, Stanley – Social Life in Egypt: a Description of the Country & its People (London: Virtue & Co., [1884]) 170 pp. ToC
.
Arabia
Contemporary
Ashish, Meera – Live & Work in Dubai: Comprehensive, Up-to-Date, Practical Information about Everyday Life (Oxford: How to Books, 2009) 320 pp. ToC
.
City of Mecca
1850 to 1900
Hurgronje, c. Snouck – Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century: Daily Life, Customs & Learning. The Moslims of the East-Indian Archipelago (Brill, 2007) 340 pp.
.
Oman
1960 to 2000
Limbert, Mandana E. – In the time of Oil: Piety, Memory & Social Life in an Omani Town [1960 to 2000] (Stanford Univ. Press, 2010) 255 pp. ToC
.
Iran
1850 to 1900
Adams, Isaac
Darkness & Daybreak: Personal Experiences, Manners, Customs, Habits, Religious & Social Life in Persia ([Grand Rapids: Dicksonson Bros.,] 1898) 260 pp. no ToC
Persia by a Persian: Personal Experiences, Manners, Customs, Habits, Religious & Social Life in Persia ([Chicago?], 1900) 530 pp. ToC
.
Contemporary
Growing Up
Malakhoff, Alexander – Growing Up in Iran (Author House, 2009) 375 pp. ToC
.
Iraq
City of Baghdad
Whole of History
Kotapish, Dawn – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Baghdad (Runestone Press, 2000) 65 pp. ToC
.
2003-2006
Books
Fassihi, Farnaz – Waiting for an Ordinary Day: the Unraveling of Life in Iraq (Public Affairs, 2008) 300 pp. For a summary see the inside flap.
Al-Windawi, Thura – Thura’s Diary: a Young Girl’s Life in War-Torn Baghdad (London: Puffin, 2004) 145 pp. no ToC
.
Afghanistan
Contemporary
Education
Roof, David – “Day-by-Day: Higher Education in Afghanistan” in Forum for International Research in Education, vol. 1, issue 3, article 6 (2014), pp. 61-80
.
Islam
Contemporary
eds. Bowen, Donna & Evelyn Early – Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East (2002) 425 pp. ToC
ed. Loimeier, Roman – Negotiating the Religious in Contemporary Everyday Life in the “Islamic World” in Gottingen Series in Social & Cultural Anthropology, vol. 19 (Gottingen Univ. Press, 2021) 250 pp. ToC
El-Aswad, el-Sayed – Muslim Worldviews & Everyday Lives [mainly in United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain & Detroit Michigan] (Alta Mira Press, 2012) 250 pp.
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.
South & South East Asia
South Asia
1850 to 1975
During War
ed. Lone, Stewart – Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Asia from the Taiping Rebellion to the Vietnam War (Greenwood, 2007) 275 pp. ToC
.
Contemporary
Book
eds. Diane Mines & Sarah Lamb – Everyday Life in South Asia (Indiana Univ. Press, 2010) 580 pp.
.
Pakistan
Contemporary
Jamie, Kathleen – Everyday Life on the Frontiers of Pakistan among Muslims (Seal Press, 2002) 245 pp. ToC
.
India
1500 to 1750
Gaffar Ali, Sk. Abdul – Aspects of Socio-Cultural Life in Orissa under the Mughals (1592-1751) PhD diss. (Center of Advanced Study Dept. of History, Aligarh Muslim University, 2015) 225 pp. ToC
.
1600 to 1950
Kincaid, Dennis – British Social Life in India 1608-1937 (London: Routledge & Sons, 1939) 340 pp. no ToC
.
1846 to 1930
Primary Sources
Sherer, J.W. – Daily Life during the Indian Mutiny [1846-1857]: Personal Experiences of 1857 (Legend Publications, 1910) 195 pp. ToC
Griffin, Z.F. – India & Daily Life in Bengal (American Baptist Publication Society, 1912) 250 pp. ToC
Hart, William H. – Everyday Life in Bengal & other Indian Sketches (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1906) 355 pp. ToC
Wilkins, W.J. – Daily Life & Work in India (London: Unwin, 1888) 85 pp. Partial ToC
Rowe, A.D. – Every-Day Life in India: Illustrated from Original Photographs (American Tract Society, 1881) 400 pp. ToC
Coopooswamey – Every-Day Life in South India: the Story of Coopooswamey: an Autobiography (Religious Tract Society, 1885) 250 pp. ToC
Buckland, C.T. – Sketches of Social Life in India (London: Allen, 1884) 220 pp. ToC
.
Secondary Source
Rahman, M. Raisur – Locale, Everyday Islam & Modernity: Qasbah Towns & Muslim life in Colonial India [1875-1930] (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015) 315 pp.
.
Sex
Chandra, Shefali – The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste & Desire in Colonial India (Duke Univ. Press, 2012) 275 pp. ToC
.
Hindus
Padfield, J.E. – The Hindu at Home, being Sketches of Hindu Daily Life [in India] (B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1908) 290 pp. ToC
.
Lepers
Hayes, M.H. – My Leper Friends: an Account of Personal Work among Lepers & of their Daily Life in India (1891) 185 pp. ToC
.
1900’s
Growing Up
Bose, Pradip – Growing Up in India (Minerva Associates, 1972) 215 pp. ToC
.
1950 to 2000
Books
Jeffery, Patricia & Roger – Don’t Marry Me to a Plowman! Women’s Everyday Lives in Rural North India (Westview Press, 1996) 300 pp. ToC
Katiyar, T.S. – Social Life in Rajasthan (a Case Study) (Kitab Mahal Private Ltd., 1964) 120 pp. ToC
.
Photos
A Day in the Life of India (Collins Publishers, 1996) 185 pp.
.
Contemporary
Hardy, Justine – Scoop-Wallah: Life on a [New] Delhi Daily [Newspaper Route] (2009) 325 pp. ToC
.
Cell Phones
Doron & Jeffrey – The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics & Daily Life (Harvard Univ. Press, 2013) 350 pp. ToC
.
Sri Lanka
Around 1900
Steuart, Mary – Every Day Life on a Ceylon Cocoa Estate (Drane, 1905) 255 pp. ToC
.
Southeast Asia
1950 to 2000’s
Mulder, Niels – Inside Southeast Asia: Religion, Everyday Life, Cultural Change (Pepin Press, 1996) 255 pp. ToC
.
Contemporary
Books
eds. Adams, Kathleen & Kathleen Gillogly – Everyday Life in Southeast Asia (Indiana Univ. Press, 2011)
.
Travel
Kleinschmidt, Harald – ch. 5, “Migration & National Identification in Southeast Asia: the Cases of Singapore & Malaysia” ToC in People on the Move: Attitudes toward & Perceptions of Migration in Medieval & Modern Europe (Praeger, 2003), pp. 265-79
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Bengal
1846 to 1930
Griffin, Z.F. – India & Daily Life in Bengal (American Baptist Publication Society, 1912) 250 pp. ToC
Hart, William H. – Everyday Life in Bengal & other Indian Sketches (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1906) 355 pp. ToC
Mullick, Bulloram – Home Life in Bengal: an Account of the Every-day Life of a Hindu Home at the Present Day (Calcutta: Newman, 1885) 185 pp. ToC
.
Myanmar
Contemporary
Olszewski, Peter – Land of a Thousand Eyes: the Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar (2005) 255 pp. no ToC
.
Thailand
1950 to 2000
A Day in the Life of Thailand Photographed by more than 50 of the World’s Best Photojournalists on a Single Day (Collins Publishers, 1995) 220 pp. Locations
.
Contemporary
Mulder, Niels – Everyday Life in Thailand (1979) 245 pp. ToC
.
Cambodia
1900 to 1950
Ponder, H.W. – Cambodian Glory: the Mystery of the Deserted Khmer Cities [AD 802 – 1431] & their Vanished Splendour; and a Description of Life in Cambodia To-day (Butterworth, 1936) 325 pp. ToC
.
Vietnam
1975-1980
Long, Nguyen & Harry Kendall – After Saigon Fell: Daily Life under the Vietnamese Communists (Institute of East Asian Studies, Univ. of California, 1981) 195 pp. ToC
.
Indonesia
Contemporary
Book
de Jong, Edwin – Making a Living between Crises & Ceremonies in Tana Toraja: the Practice of Everyday Life of a South Sulawesi Highland Community in Indonesia (Brill, 2013) 330 pp. ToC
.
Papua New Guinea
1900 to 1950
Tribal People: Sex
Malinowski, Bronislaw – The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (London: Routledge & Sons, 1932) 665 pp. ToC
.
1950 to 2000
Busse, Turner & Araho – The People of Lake Kutubu & Kikori: changing Meanings of Daily Life [in 1991-1992] (Papua New Guinea National Museum, 1993) 90 pp. ToC
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Head Hunters, c. 1905
Cator, Dorothy – Everyday Life among the Head-Hunters [in Africa & Borneo] & other Experiences from East to West (Longmans, Green & Co., 1905) 295 pp. ToC
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China & Taiwan
China
Whole History
ed. Kerr, Rose – Chinese Art & Design: Art Objects in Ritual & Daily Life (Overlook Press, 1991) 250 pp. ToC
ed. Kuiper, Kathleen – The Culture of China in Understanding China (Rosen, 2010) 300 pp. ToC
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1350 to Present
Housing
Deqi, Shan – Chinese Vernacular Dwellings: People’s Daily Life with their Houses [AD 1368 to Present] (China Intercontinental Press, 2010) 165 pp. ToC
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1800 to 2000
Book
Berliner, Nancy – Yin Yu Tang: the Architecture & Daily Life of a Chinese House (Tuttle Publishing, 2003) 185 pp. ToC
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1800’s
Primary Sources
Munger, James – Two Years in the Pacific & Arctic Oceans & China [around 1850]: being a journal of every day life on board ship, interesting information in regard to the inhabitants of different countries, and the exciting events peculiar to a whaling voyage (Galleon Press, 1967) 95 pp. no ToC
Doolittle, Justus – Social Life of the Chinese: a Daguerreotype of Daily Life in China rev. Paxton Hood (London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1868) 660 pp. ToC
Dukes, Edwin J. – Everyday Life in China, or Scenes along River & Road in Fuh-Kien (Religious Tract Society, 1885) 250 pp. ToC
Watters, T. – Stories of Everyday Life in Modern China: told by Chinese & done into English (London:Nutt, Strand, 1896) 235 pp. ToC
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Secondary Sources
Suleski, Ronald – Daily Life for the Common People of China, 1850 to 1950: Understanding Chaoben Culture (Brill, 2018) 470 pp. ToC
Knapp, Ronald – The Peranakan Chinese Home: Arts & Culture in Daily Life (Tuttle Publishing, 2012) 155 pp. ToC
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1900 to 1949
Books
Zarrow, Peter – Creating Chinese Modernity: Knowledge & Everyday Life, 1900-1940 (Peter Lang, 2006) 255 pp. ToC
Knapp, Ronald – The Peranakan Chinese Home: Arts & Culture in Daily Life (Tuttle Publishing, 2012) 155 pp. ToC
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West China
Highbaugh, Irma – Family Life in West China [in the 1930’s through 1948] (NY: Agricultural Missions, 1948) 250 pp. ToC
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1949 to 2000
Books
Galston, Arthur & Jean Savage – Daily Life in People’s China (Crowell, 1973) 265 pp. ToC
eds. Brown, Jeremy & Matthew Johnson – Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism [1949-1976] (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015) 475 pp. ToC
Macciocchi, Maria – Daily Life in Revolutionary China [1966-1970] (Monthly Review Press, 1972) 505 pp. ToC
eds. Long, Jingzhong, Yihuan – Rural Transformations & Development: China in Context: the Everyday Lives of Policies & People (Edward Elgar, 2010) 410 pp. ToC
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Photos
A Day in the Life of China Photographed by 90 of the World’s leading Photojournalists on one day, April 15, 1989 (Collins Publishers, 1989) 220 pp. no ToC
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Contemporary
eds. Lee, Jonathan H.X. & Kathleen Nadeau – Asian American Identities & Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life (Lexington Books, 2014) 280 pp. ToC
Bell, Daniel – China’s New Confucianism: Politics & Everyday Life in a Changing Society (Princeton Univ. Press, 2008) 260 pp.
eds. Long, Jingzhong, Yihuan – Rural Transformations & Development: China in Context: the Everyday Lives of Policies & People (Edward Elgar, 2010) 410 pp. ToC
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City of Beijing
Whole of History
Baldwin, Robert – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Beijing (Runestone Press, 1999) 65 pp. ToC
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1949 to 2009
Drawings
Guan, Geng – Sixty Years of Life in Beijing, 1949-2009, a Collection of Drawings from an Ordinary Beijing Resident (Foreign Languages Press, 2009) 210 pp. ToC
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Hong Kong
1950 to 1997
Mitchell, Robert E. – Family Life in Urban Hong Kong, vol. 1, 2 a Project of the Urban Family Life Survey (1969) 320 pp. ToC 1, 2
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1997 to Present
Newendorp, Nicole – Uneasy Reunions: Immigration, Citizenship & Family Life in Post-1997 Hong Kong (Stanford Univ. Press, 2008) 305 pp. ToC
Wong, Sam – Exploring ‘Unseen’ Social Capital in Community Participation: Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong (Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2007) 205 pp.
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Tibet
Contemporary
Article
Rgyas Bkra Shis, Sangs & C.K. Stuart – “Tibetan Daily Life on the Gcan Tsha Thang Grassland” in Asian Highlands Perspectives, vol. 51 (2018), pp. 79-147
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Book
Iha, Stobs stag – A Multi-Ethnic Village in Northeast Tibet: History, Ritual & Daily Life in Chu cha in Asian Highlands Perspectives, 24 (2013) 120 pp. ToC
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Taiwan
Contemporary
eds. Jordan, Morris & Moskowitz – The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan (Univ. of Hawai’i Press, 2004) 280 pp. ToC
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East Asia
Korea
1892 to 1920
Book
Gifford, Daniel – Every-Day Life in Korea: a Collection of Studies & Stories (Revell, 1898) 250 pp. ToC
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Christian Missions
Nisbet, Anabel Major – Day in and Day out in Korea: being some account of the Mission Work that has been carried on in Korea since 1892 by the Presbyterian Church in the United States (1920) 200 pp. ToC
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Contemporary
Cultural Life in Korea: Scenes from Everyday Life ed. June J. Jo (2003) 165 pp. ToC
Kim, Youna – Women, Television & Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (Routledge, 2005) 240 pp. ToC
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North Korea
Books
Hassig, Ralph & Kongdan Oh – The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009) 315 pp.
Blurb: “…provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of experience…”
Lankov, Andrei – North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea (2007) 350 pp. ToC
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South Korea
1945 to 2000
A Novel
Choi, In-hoon – The Daily Life of Ku-poh the Novelist (Fremont Publications, 1985) 290 pp. ToC
Intro: “Mr. In-hoon Choi, a major novelist in Korea of today, is an intellectual writer who represents the immediate generation following the liberation of Korea from the Japanese rule [in 1945]… The Daily Life of the Novelist Ku-poh… presents a portrait of a conscientious novelist who is living a solitary life in South Korea to which he came down from North Korea, coping wtih the hardships of life involved in the division of his country. The portrait of the novelist Ku-poh is, interestingly enough, designed to represent the portrait of the typical intellect in South Korea who has no choice but to be inflicted by the problems coming from the division of his nation.
According to the novelist Ku-poh, protagonist of the novel, the past twenty-five years after the liberation of Korea from Japan may be called the most troublesome period that the Koreans have experienced in their history…. Unable to take part in the governing forces of the society, the novelist Ku-poh led a monotonous life, repetitious and dull, but to reflect upon the realities of society as well as upon the alienation of the true and conscientious intellects from the dynamics of their national life.”
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Japan
1600 to 1800’s
Books
Dunn, C.J. – Everyday Life in Traditional Japan (Batsford, 1969) 205 pp. ToC
Perez, Louis – Daily Life in Early Modern Japan (Greenwood Press, 2002) 370 pp. ToC
Vaporis, Constantine – Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns (Greenwood, 2012) 330 pp.
Matsunosuke, Nishiyama – Edo Culture: Daily Life & Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868 (Univ. of Hawai’i Press, 1997) 315 pp. ToC
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1850 to 1900
Morse, Edward – Japan Day by Day, 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83; with illustrations from sketches in the author’s Journal, vol. 1, 2 (Houghton Mifflin, 1917) ToC 1, 2
Hickman & Fetchko – Japan Day by Day: an Exhibition honoring Edward Sylvester Morse and commemorating the hundredth anniversary of his arrival in Japan in 1877 (Peabody Museum of Salem, 1977) 210 pp. ToC
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1900 to WWII
Stopes, Marie – A Journal from Japan: a Daily Record of Life [in 1907-1909] as seen by a Scientist (London: Blackie & Son, 1910) 305 pp. no ToC
ed. Tansman, Alan – The Culture of Japanese Fascism [1920-1945] (Duke Univ. Press, 2009) 480 pp. ToC
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WWII
Yamashita, Samuel H. – Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945 (Univ. Press of Kansas, 2015) 250 pp. ToC
ed. Tansman, Alan – The Culture of Japanese Fascism [1920-1945] (Duke Univ. Press, 2009) 480 pp.
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1950 to 2000
Books
Vardaman, Jr., James & Michiko Vardaman – Japan from A to Z: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained (Yen Books, 1995) 128 pp. Blurb
eds. Mak, Sunder, Abe & Igawa – Japan: Why it Works, Why it Doesn’t: Economics in Everyday Life (Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1998) 230 pp.
ed. Tobin, Joseph – Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life & Consumer Taste in a Changing Society (Yale Univ. Press, 1992) 265 pp. ToC
Mizuta, Kazuo – The Structures of Everyday Life in Japan in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century (Mellen Press, 1993) 400 pp. ToC
Magee, J. Robert – Japan: Cheap & Easy: a Practical Guide to Daily Life in Japan (Weatherhill, 1995) 165 pp. ToC
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Photos
A Day in the Life of Japan Photographed by 100 of the World’s leading Photojournalists on one day, June 7, 1985 (Collins Publishers, 1985) 230 pp.
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Schools
Article
Johnson, Marcia & Jeffrey – “Daily Life in Japanese High Schools” in Eric Digest, EDO-SO-96-7 (Oct. 1996) 2 pp.
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Elderly
ed. Altergott, Karen – Daily Life in Later Life: Comparative Perspectives (Sage Publications, 1988) 250 pp. ToC
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Conversation
Article
Okushi, Yoshiko – “Use of Japanese Honorifics in Daily Life: What the Traditional Theories do not Say” a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (1998) 10 pp.
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Contemporary
Book
eds. Cwiertka, Katarzyna & Ewa Machotka – Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan: a Transdisciplinary Perspective (Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2018) 250 pp. ToC
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Australia, New Zealand & Islands
Australia
1800’s
Books
Stamer, W. – The Gentleman Emigrant: his Daily Life, Sports & Pastimes in Canada, Australia & the United States, vol. 2 (Tinsley Brothers, 1874) 310 pp. ToC
Atkinson, Alan – Camden: Farm & Village Life in Early New South Wales [1830 to 1860] (Oxford Univ. Press, 1988) 325 pp. ToC
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A Novel
Massary, Isabel – Social Life in Sydney; or Colonial Experience. An Australian Tale (Edinburgh: Grant & Son, 1866) 380 pp. no ToC
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1850 to 1914
Blainey, Geoffrey – Black Kettle & Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia (Penguin, 2004) 495 pp. ToC
“Vanished Australia” refers to life before much of the progress of technology, for instance, such as when persons planned night travel according to full moons.
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1890’s
Docker, John – The Nervous Nineties: Australian Cultural Life in the 1890’s (Oxford, 1991) 270 pp. ToC
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1950 to 2000
Photos
A Day in the Life of Australia: Photographed by 100 of the World’s leading Photojournalists (Potts Point, 1981) 285 pp.
A Day in the Life of New South Wales Photographed by the World’s leading Photojournalists (A Day in the Life of Australia, 1983) 160 pp.
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Contemporary
eds. Hedegaard, Mariane & Marilyn Fleer – Play, Learning & Children’s Development: Everyday Life in Families & Transition to School (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013) 230 pp. This studies two families each in Denmark and Australia.
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Aborigenes
1870 to 1995
Venbrux, Eric – A Death in the Tiwi Islands: Conflict, Ritual & Social Life in an Australian Aboriginal Community [late-1800’s to 1995] (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995) 285 pp. ToC
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Tasmania
1800’s
Bonwick, James – Daily Life & Origin of the Tasmanians (London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1870) 345 pp. ToC
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New Zealand
1800’s
McKeown, Matthew – Some Memories of a Miner’s Life; or, Five Years on the Gold Fields of New Zealand… (1893) 235 pp. no ToC
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Contemporary
Gagne, Natacha – Being Maori in the City: Indigenous Everyday Life in Auckland [New Zealand] (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2013) 355 pp. ToC
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Tonga
1950 to 2000
Finau, Samiuela – Marriage & Family Life in Tonga: Strategies to Strengthen Marriages & Family Life in Tongan Villages through the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga DMin diss. (School of Theology at Claremont, 1979) 165 pp. ToC
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Africa
1750 to Contemporary
Wartime
ed. Laband, John – Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa (Greenwood Press, 2007) 300 pp. ToC
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1800’s
Book
Brittan, Harriette – Scenes & Incidents of Every-Day Life in Africa (NY: Pudney & Russell Publishers, 1860) 375 pp. ToC
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Contemporary
Short & Friendly
Davidson, Avelyn – A Day in the Life of an African Village (Scholastic, 2008) 38 pp.
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Book
ed. Loimeier, Roman – Negotiating the Religious in Contemporary Everyday Life in the “Islamic World” in Gottingen Series in Social & Cultural Anthropology, vol. 19 (Gottingen Univ. Press, 2021) 250 pp. ToC
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Photos
Cohen, David E. – A Day in the Life of Africa, Photographed by the World’s leading Photojournalists on one Day [Feb. 28, 2002] (Tides Foundation, 2002) 285 pp. Locations
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North Africa
Algeria
Liverani, Andrea – Civil Society in Algeria: the Political Functions of Associational Life (Routledge, 2008) 240 pp.
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West Africa
Senegal
1950 to 2000
Bouttiaux, Anne-Marie – Senegal behind Glass: Images of Religious & Daily Life (Prestel, 1994) 165 pp.
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Timbuktu
Whole of History
Brook, Larry – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Timbuktu (Runestone Press, 1999) 65 pp. ToC
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Ghana
Whole History
Bibliography
Amedekey, E.Y. – The Culture of Ghana: a Bibliography (Ghana Univ. Press, 1970) 225 pp. ToC
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Central Africa
Chad
1990 to 2020
Leonard, Lori – Life in the Time of Oil: a Pipeline & Poverty in Chad (Indiana Univ. Press, 2016) 160 pp.
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Southern Africa
Kongo
Balandier, Georges – Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo (Pantheon, 1968) 290 pp. ToC
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Zimbabwe
Contemporary
Schlyter, Ann – Multi-Habitation: Urban Housing & Everyday Life in Chitungwiza Zimbabwe, Research Report No. 123 (Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2003) 83 pp.
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Zambia
1950 to 2000
Storrs, A.E.G. – A Study of Zambia’s Natural Resources: the Story of Zambia’s Flora & Fauna & their Influence on Everyday Life (Oxford Univ. Press, 1968) 148 pp. ToC
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Mozambique
Contemporary
Heer, Barbara – Cities of Entanglements: Social Life in Johannesburg [South Africa] & Maputo [Mozambique] through Ethnographic Comparison [2010-2012] (Transcript: Urban Studies, 2019) 330 pp. ToC
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South Africa
1700’s
Botha, Colin G. – Social Life in the Cape Colony in the 18th Century (Juta, 1926) 155 pp. ToC
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1860 to Present
Hansen, Thomas Blom – Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa (Princeton Univ. Press, 2012) 365 pp. ToC
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Around 1900
Books
Lowndes, E.E.K. – Every-Day Life in South Africa (Patridge, 1900) 215 pp. ToC
X.C. – Everyday Life in Cape Colony in Time of Peace (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902) 130 pp. ToC
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War, Nurse
Laurence, E.C. – Nurse’s Life in War & Peace [in the Boer War, 1899-1902, and in England] (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1912) 330 pp. ToC
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Contemporary
Ross, Fiona – Raw Life, New Hope: Decency, Housing & Everyday Life in a Post-Apartheid Community (UCT Press, 2010) 245 pp. ToC
eds. Coetzee, Rau & Wojciechowska – Narrating the Everyday: Windows on Life in Central South Africa (Sunbonani Scholar, 2019) 455 pp.
Heer, Barbara – Cities of Entanglements: Social Life in Johannesburg [South Africa] & Maputo [Mozambique] through Ethnographic Comparison [2010-2012] (Transcript: Urban Studies, 2019) 330 pp. ToC
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South America
1500 to 1850
Book
Jeferson, Ann & Paul Lokken – Daily Life in Colonial Latin America [1500-1850] (Greenwood, 2011) 255 pp. ToC
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1900 to 1950
Book
Dangaix, William – How we [America] affect Latin America’s Daily Life: Latin America, no. 2 (Institute for Public Service, [1920?]) 50 pp. no ToC
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Colombia
Book
Williams, Raymond & Kevin Guerrieri – Culture & Customs of Colombia (Greenwood Press, 1999) 170 pp.
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Peru
1565 to 1950
Salomon, Frank – The Cord Keepers: Khipus & Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village (Duke Univ. Press, 2004) 360 pp. ToC
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1700 to 1850
Descola, Jean – Daily Life in Colonial Peru, 1710-1820
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Venezuela
1950 to 2000
Lizot, Jacques – Tales of the Yanomami: Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985) 220 pp. ToC
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Bolivia
1980 to 2000
Book
Gill, Lesley – Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life & the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State (Columbia Univ. Press, 2000) 230 pp. ToC
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Suriname
1970’s
Brana-Shute, Gary – On the Corner: Male Social Life in a Paramaribo Creole Neighborhood (Waveland Press, 1989) 140 pp. ToC
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Brazil
1800’s
Article
Gilberto, Freyre – “Social Life in Brazil in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century” Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 5 (1922), pp. 597-630
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Book
Silva Dias, Maria Odila – Power & Everyday Life: the Lives of Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Brazil tr. Ann Frost (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1995) 240 pp. ToC
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1900’s
Gregor, Thomas – Mehinaku: the Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1977) 390 pp. ToC
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1950 to 2000
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy – Death without Weeping: the Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (University of California Press, 1992) 625 pp.
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Contemporary
Article
Barbosa & Barros – “The Daily Life of Viticulture Workers in the São Francisco Valley: a Photoethnographic Study” in International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research & Science, vol. 7, issue 3 (Mar 2020), pp. 260-70
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Book
O’Daugherty, Maureen – Consumption Intensified: the Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil (Duke Univ. Press, 2002) 270 pp. ToC
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World War I
Books
Ellinwood, Ralph – Behind the German Lines: a Narrative of the Everyday Life of an American Prisoner of War (Knickerbocker Press, 1920) 175 pp. ToC
Healy, Maureen – Vienna & the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War & Everyday Life in World War I (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004) 350 pp.
Davis, Belinda – Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics & Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2000) 360 pp. ToC
Houlihan, Patrick – Catholicism & the Great War: Religion & Everyday Life in Germany & Austrai-Hungary, 1914-1922 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017) 300 pp. ToC
Evans, Richard – The German Working Class 1888-1933: the Politics of Everyday Life (London: Croom Helm, 1982) 250 pp.
Heyman, Neil – Daily Life in World War I (Greenwood Press)
ed. Atkin, Nicholas – Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe (Greenwood Press, 2008) 275 pp.
Snook, Linda L. – Between Bridge & Lab: the Story of an Austrian Couple during WWI: Courtship, Marriage, Daily Life & Duty to Country (2014) 385 pp. ToC
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Post-WWI Germany
ed. Welsh, Carla – Seitz Family Letters from Germany: a Glimpse into Civilian Life in post-WWI Germany (n.p., 2021) 25 pp. no ToC
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World War II
Friendly
Hazen, Walter – Everyday Life: World War II (Good Year Books, 2006) 98 pp. ToC
D-Day to Berlin: Victory in Europe Day by Day (Chartwell Books, 2013) 185 pp. ToC
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Article
Falle, Sam – Pt. 1, “The [British] Royal Navy” in My Lucky Life: in War, Revolution, Peace & Diplomacy (Oxford: Isis, 2004), pp. 3-89
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Books
Desquesnes, Remy – Normandy 1944: the Invasion, the Battle, Everyday Life (Editions Ouest-France, 1993) 230 pp. no ToC
ed. Ott, Sandra – War, Exile, Justice & Everyday Life [in the Basque], 1936-1946 (Reno, NV: Center for Basque Studies) 410 pp. ToC
Reader’s Digest – Life on the Home Front in Journeys into the Past (Reader’s Digest Association, 1993) 155 pp. ToC
ed. Atkin, Nicholas – Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe (Greenwood Press, 2008) 275 pp.
Schmitt, Hans – Lucky Victim: an Ordinary Life [of one half Jewish] in Extraordinary Times 1933-1946 (Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1989) 275 pp. ToC See the inside flap for a summary.
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Germany
Friendly
Life in Nazi Germany
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Books
Engelmann, Bernt – In Hitler’s Germany: Everyday Life in the Third Reich (Methuen, 1988) 310 pp. ToC
Evans, Richard – The German Working Class 1888-1933: the Politics of Everyday Life (London: Croom Helm, 1982) 250 pp.
Steege, Paul – Black Market, Cold War: Everyday Life in Berlin, 1946-1949 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007) 370 pp.
Peukert, Detlev – Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition & Racism in Everyday Life (Penguin Books, 1989) 310 pp. ToC
Seligmann, Matthew, John Davison & John McDonald – Daily Life in Hitler’s Germany (Thomas Dunne Books, 2004) 220 pp. ToC
Roland, Paul – Life in the Third Reich: Daily Life in Nazi Germany (Arcturus, 2016) 177 pp. ToC
Kuehn, Heinz – Mixed Blessings: an Almost Ordinary Life [of one half Jewish] in Hitler’s Germany (Univ. of Georgia Press, 1988) 230 pp. ToC
Mosse, George – Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural & Social Life in the Third Reich (Grosset & Dunlap, 1966) 445 pp.
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Jews
ed. Kaplan, Marion – Jewish Daily Life in Germany (Oxford Univ. Press, 2005) 535 pp.
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Ghettos
Ghettos 1939-1945: New Research & Perspectives on Definition, Daily Life & Survival: Symposium Presentations (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at United States Holocause Memorial Museum, 2005) 165 pp.
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Nazi Concentration Camps
Friendly
Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp
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Books
Morrison, Jack – Ravensbruck: Everyday Life in a Woman’s Concentration Camp, 1939-45 (Marcus Wiener Publishers, 2000) 380 pp. ToC
Soumerai, Eve & Carol Schulz – Daily Life during the Holocaust (Greenwood Press, 1998) 345 pp.
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Japanese Concentration Camps
Falle, Sam – ch. 5, “Prisoner of War” in My Lucky Life: in War, Revolution, Peace & Diplomacy (Oxford: Isis, 2004), pp. 65-89
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Occupied Areas
The Polish Worker’s Day: a Working Day in the Life of a Polish Worker in Occupied Warsaw (American Friends of Polish Democracy, 1941) 25 pp. no ToC
eds. Gildea, Wieviorka & Warring – Surviving Hitler & Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe (Berg, 2006) 250 pp.
Denes, Magda – Castles Burning: a Child’s Life in War [in Hungary, 1939-1946] (NY: W.W. Norton, 1997) 380 pp. no ToC
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France
Gildea, Robert – Marianne in Chains: Everyday Life in the French Heartland under the German Occupation (Metropolitan Books, 2003) 540 pp.
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Britain
Short & Friendly
Wilson, Laura – Daily Life in a Wartime House (Heinemann, 1996) 46 pp. ToC
Childs, Alan – A Day in the Life of a World War II [Child] Evacuee [from London] (Wayland: 1999) 33 pp.
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Books
Longmate, Norman – How we Lived [in England] then: a History of Everyday Life during the Second World War (Pimlico, 2002) 615 pp. ToC
Garfield, Simon – Our Hidden Lives: the Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain (Ebury Press, 2005) 540 pp. ToC
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Photos
Kee, Robert – We’ll Meet Again: Photographs of Daily Life in Britain during World War Two (Dent & Sons, 1984) 210 pp. ToC
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America
McCutcheon, Marc – The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life [in America] from Prohibition [1920] through World War II (Writer’s Digest Books, 1995) 260 pp.
Cohen, Allen & Ronald Filippelli – Times of Sorrow & Hope: Documenting Everyday Life in Pennsylvania during the Depression & World War II, a Photographic Record (Pennsylvania Univ. State Press, 2003) 285 pp. ToC
Clark, Jack – On the Home Front: My Mother’s Story of Everyday American Life from Prohibition [1920] through World War II (Plume Book, 2002) 230 pp. ToC
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Internment Camps for Japanese Americans
Friendly
Matsuoka, Jack – Camp II, Block 211: Daily Life in an Internment Camp (Japan Publications, 1974) 200 pp. no ToC Here is a 2003 revision.
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Book
Kekki, Saara – Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain [Containment Camp in Wyoming, 1942-1945]: Neworks, Power & Everyday Life (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2022) 242 pp.
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Japan
Yamashita, Samuel H. – Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945 (Univ. Press of Kansas, 2015) 250 pp. ToC
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Families
Short & Friendly
Patrick, Gary – Family Life in World War II (Wayland, 1991) 26 pp. ToC
Smith, Nigel – Family Life in the Second World War (Wayland, 1994) 30 pp. ToC
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In Totalitarian & Socialist Regimes across the World
See also on Russia, Hungary and North Korea above.
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1900 to Present
Books
Ghodsee, Kristen – Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism (Duke Univ. Press, 2011) 225 pp. ToC
ed. Riggs, Thomas – Histories of Everyday Life in Totalitarian Regimes, vol. 1 (Personal Experiences), 2 (Effects of Totalitarianism), 3 (Literary Approaches) (St. James Press, 2015) 525 pp. ToC 1, 2, 3
ed. Koleva, Daniela – Negotiating Normality: Everyday Lives in Socialist Institutions (Transaction Publishers, 2012) 270 pp. ToC
Inkeles, Alex & Raymond Bauer – The Soviet Citizen: Daily Life in a Totalitarian Society (Atheneum, 1968) 550 pp.
ed. Tansman, Alan – The Culture of Japanese Fascism [1920-1945] (Duke Univ. Press, 2009) 480 pp. ToC
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Sex
Book
Staford, Peter – Sexual Behavior in the Communist World: an Eyewitness Report of Life, Love & the Human Condition behind the Iron Curtain (Julian Press, 1967) 340 pp. ToC
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