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Lost Worlds: How Our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life and Why Life Is So Hard Today (Studies in Early Modern German History) Hardcover - 1996
by Imhof, Arthur E
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- Title Lost Worlds: How Our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life and Why Life Is So Hard Today (Studies in Early Modern German History)
- Author Imhof, Arthur E
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 199
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London:
- Date 1996-09-29
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0813916593
- ISBN 9780813916590 / 0813916593
- Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.31 x 0.98 in (23.67 x 16.03 x 2.49 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Social history, Germany - Social conditions
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-6721
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.094
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From the rear cover
Publication of Lost Worlds introduces to English-speaking readers one of the most original and engaging historians in Germany today. Known for his work in historical demography, Arthur E. Imhof here branches out into folklore, religion, anthropology, psychology, and the history of art. Imhof begins by reconstructing the world and worldview of Johannes Hooss, a farmer in a remote Hessian village. The everyday life of such a man was particular to his region; he spoke a local dialect and shared a regional culture. By exploring the various systems that made sense out of this circumscribed existence - astrology, the folklore of the seasons, and Christian interpretations of birth, confirmation, marriage, and death - Imhof expands the book into a speculation on why life in the late twentieth century can seem meaningless and difficult. Rooted in Imhof's belief that we need stability and values that transcend the individual, Lost Worlds inspires us to examine our own ways of seeing the world.
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- Publishers Weekly, 08/05/1996, Page 423