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Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle Class Life
Jonas Frykman
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The culture of the bourgeoisie gradually came to dominate European society during the nineteenth century. Jonas Frykman and Orvar Löfgren examine how this new style of life developed and how it spread. They focus on Swedish society from 1880 to 1910, conceptualizing events and behavior in a way that applies to western culture in general during that era, and illustrate their yhemeswith contemporary photographs. Through their interpretation, we are reminded that middle-class culture is only one alternative among many, and not always the best.
Culture Builders deals primarily with the ways in which ideas about the good and ... Read more
The culture of the bourgeoisie gradually came to dominate European society during the nineteenth century. Jonas Frykman and Orvar Löfgren examine how this new style of life developed and how it spread. They focus on Swedish society from 1880 to 1910, conceptualizing events and behavior in a way that applies to western culture in general during that era, and illustrate their yhemeswith contemporary photographs. Through their interpretation, we are reminded that middle-class culture is only one alternative among many, and not always the best.
Culture Builders deals primarily with the ways in which ideas about the good and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813512396
SKU
V9780813512396
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About Jonas Frykman
Jonas Frykman were in the Department of European Ethnology at the University of Lund, Seden. Orvar Löfgren were in the Department of European Ethnology at the University of Lund, Seden. John Gillis was a Professor of History at Rutgers University. Alan Crozier translated this book from the original Swedish edition.
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