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Everyday Life: How the Ordinary Became Extraordinary
Joseph Anthony Amato
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Description for Everyday Life: How the Ordinary Became Extraordinary
Hardback. Joseph A. Amato offers a panoramic account of the evolution of our daily existence and reflects on the complex and changing textures of everyday life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 224 x 27. Weight in Grams: 470.
In Everyday Life Joseph A. Amato offers a panoramic account of the evolution of our daily existence and reflects on the complex and changing textures of everyday life. Beginning with societies of scarcity and relative lack of change and ending with our own twenty-first-century lives, he ranges widely through topics as varied as dirt and muck, walking and the charm of spices, and through time from early agriculture to mechanization and the modern urban existence.Amato argues that what seems to be ordinary is in fact extraordinary, and shows how life, even in the very recent past, differed from life ... Read more
In Everyday Life Joseph A. Amato offers a panoramic account of the evolution of our daily existence and reflects on the complex and changing textures of everyday life. Beginning with societies of scarcity and relative lack of change and ending with our own twenty-first-century lives, he ranges widely through topics as varied as dirt and muck, walking and the charm of spices, and through time from early agriculture to mechanization and the modern urban existence.Amato argues that what seems to be ordinary is in fact extraordinary, and shows how life, even in the very recent past, differed from life ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780236636
SKU
V9781780236636
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Ref
99-15
About Joseph Anthony Amato
Joseph A. Amato is Emeritus Professor of History and Rural and Regional Studies at Southwest Minnesota State University. He is the author of many books, including Dust: A History of the Small and Invisible (2000), On Foot: A History of Walking (2004) and Surfaces: A History (2013).
Reviews for Everyday Life: How the Ordinary Became Extraordinary
In "Everyday Life," Amato reflects on the complex and changing textures of everyday life, beginning with societies of scarcity and relative lack of change and ending with Amato s own American life of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A work of wide-ranging erudition, it nonetheless offers food for reflection to the everyday reader today, for it lays out how life ... Read more