“Sou Inglesa! Sou Inglesa!”: Memórias de uma Menina Anglo-Portuguesa (1907-1930)

2017 ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
Miguel Alarcão
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times

Textualizing the memory(ies) of physical and cultural encounter(s) between Self and Other, travel literature/writing often combines subjectivity with documental information which may prove relevant to better assess mentalities, everyday life and the social history of any given ‘timeplace’. That is the case with Growing up English. Memories of Portugal 1907-1930, by D. J. Baylis (née Bucknall), prefaced by Peter Mollet as “(…) a remarkably vivid and well written observation of the times expressed with humour and not little ‘carinho’. In all they make excellent reading especially for those of us interested in the recent past.” (Baylis: 2)

The Joy of Everyday Life: Microhistory and the History of Everyday Life in the Socialist Dictatorships

2008 ◽  
Vol 34-35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 185-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Péter Apor
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Cultural Behavior ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Generation

In the last two decades, historians have faced difficult methodological challenges in exploring former party archives in East Central Europe and in reconstructing the political history of communist regimes. A remarkable answer to this challenge has been provided by a new generation of historians who turned their attention to the social history of socialist dictatorships in East Central Europe, and took a peculiar interest in the “small,” the “mundane” and the “insignificant” of everyday life under communism. Their laborious research has focused not on high politics, but on local communities. Their works deconstructed the life-styles, living conditions, fashion and dressing, leisure, tourism and consumption, sexual habits and childcare of ordinary people. The current study provides a historiographic overview of the major thematic and methodological orientations of the history of the everyday life in socialist dictatorships. It focuses on two distinct but overlapping directions of research: the analysis of the daily habitual organization of communist societies; and the communist authorities’ attempt at a micro-politics of everyday life. The study argues that, while the new social history of the socialist dictatorships has greatly added to our understanding of significant aspects of the social and political structure of these countries, it has also constructed a representation of everyday life as essentially impertinent to power. In doing so, it ignored the capacity of habitual social and cultural behavior in producing techniques of control and discipline.

Some Thoughts on Polish-Jewish Relations

2004 ◽  
pp. 278-287
Author(s):  
Władysław Bartoszewski
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Orthodox Jews ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Separate Identity

This chapter assesses Polish–Jewish relations. The Poles and Jews shared the same lands within the same country for hundreds of years. The overwhelming majority of the Jews of Poland rejected assimilationist tendencies, steadfastly maintaining the primary value of their separate identity, and a significant number of Orthodox Jews preferred actual isolation from the non-Jewish environment. The Poles too, having numerous links with the Jews arising from the practicalities of everyday life, were not overly eager to break down barriers dividing them. Each side also displayed tendencies of superiority towards the other. Ultimately, the hundreds of years of Polish Jewry demand historical remembrance. Despite the unfavourable environment in Poland, serious interest has developed in the social history of Jews in Poland, in the religion, customs, and culture of people who are no longer there.

scholarly journals Shadows of the Plantation? A Social History of Suriname’s Bauxite Town Moengo

2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 215-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anouk de Koning
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Social Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Industry

This article explores the social history of Suriname’s first bauxite town, Moengo, founded in the late 1910s. It recounts the rise of a new industry that drew workers away from the plantations and urban artisanal occupations to work in a massive, highly organized and orchestrated organization-cum-social community. Using oral narratives about life in Moengo, as well as census and other statistical data, this contribution asks whether everyday life in the mining enclave echoed features of the plantation.

scholarly journals Public mood of the Kuibyshev Region residents in 1990-1991 in the context of the social history of Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 263-270
Author(s):  
Alexey Vladimirovich Zakharchenko ◽  
Maksim Sergeevich Kirdyashev ◽  
Ksenia Viktorovna Pankeeva
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Chronological Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Apathy

This paper deals with 1990-1991 as a turning point, which marked the collapse of the policy of perestroika, the communist institutions of power became a relic of the past, metamorphoses took place in the social structure of the Soviet society. The focus of everyday life history is the reality in the interpretation of its immediate participants, who were witnesses of the events of those years. Such events can relate to different spheres of life, and participants in these events can be people of different social strata. Newspapers and magazines are considered to be an irreplaceable source of information for studying the relationship between government and society in this chronological period. Letters and appeals of citizens from the regional newspaper Volzhskaya Kommuna were taken into consideration. There were rubrics expressing public opinion about the dynamics of the perestroika policy. The emotional reaction reflected in the letters is of great interest. The sources clearly record the main tendencies and stages of the public mood that prevailed in that period, thereby transfer the political apathy that spread in the society. The information received from the sources makes a definite contribution to the study of the everyday life history and can serve as a basis for research and reveal new aspects in social history.

scholarly journals TOWARD THE REHABILITATION OF THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE SERBS DURING THE OTTOMAN RULE: THE SERBIAN SOCIETY IN THE 15TH CENTURY

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-52
Author(s):  
Ema Miljković ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Family Life ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come

The aim of this paper is to point out to the immense value of the social history of the Serbian people under the Ottoman rule, since it is the only way to come to some conclusions about less-known issues, such as everyday life and family life.

scholarly journals «If the mosques open, who will visit them?»: Kasimov Tatars religious life in 1943 on the basis of the data by G.P. Snesarev

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 330-348
Author(s):  
M. A. Safarov ◽  
E. M. Seitov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Soviet Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Status Of Women

Studying the everyday life of the religious and understanding the relations between the USSR government and the religion requires insertion of new sources of information. Fragments of the materials by G.P. Snesarev devoted to the existence of Islam among Kasimov Tatars fi rst published in this paper makes it possible to fi nd out the key junctures in the history of the religion. Dated by the end of 1943 this report demonstrates the realities of the new Soviet policy towards the religion. Detailed information about the spreading of ritual practices, about the processes of secularization, describing the «life without a mosque» and the status of women of the period expands our knowledge of the social history and the situation with Islam in the USSR.

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