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Riddles of Identity in Modern Times

Riddles of Identity in Modern Times

Gerard Vincent
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This is the final volume of an already standard work on private life in Western civilization from Greco-Roman times to the present. The entire work was planned by Phillipe Ariès and Georges Duby in the tradition of the Annales group; this volume was first published in France as Histoire de la vie privee: de la Première Guerre mondiale à nos jours . Editors Prost and Vincent have added sections on Italian, German, and American families to this English edition, thereby making it more comprehensive. Like the previous four volumes , this one has a theme--personal identity. The editors and authors pursue this theme in the same contexts used in the earlier volumes: in the workplace and the city, where private property and private activities have been subjects of controversy and objects of state control; in the home and family, where, increasingly, even sexual matters are not private; and in middle groups between state and individual--such as church. or mosque, or party--where more and more personal dramas are acted out in a world of cultural diversity. As Duby's foreword in the first volume indicated, A History of Private Life aims at an in-depth analysis of the evolution of personality as concept and reality in the Western world. Now complete in French and in English translation, the work is a tribute to the Annales approach of studying structural changes over long periods and to the late great historian Ariès, on whose schema Duby and the other editors drew.

--Reviewed by T. J. Knight in Choice, 29 , p. 1282.
Language
English
Pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Belknap Press
Release
July 15, 1998
ISBN
0674400046
ISBN 13
9780674400047

Riddles of Identity in Modern Times

Gerard Vincent
3.8/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This is the final volume of an already standard work on private life in Western civilization from Greco-Roman times to the present. The entire work was planned by Phillipe Ariès and Georges Duby in the tradition of the Annales group; this volume was first published in France as Histoire de la vie privee: de la Première Guerre mondiale à nos jours . Editors Prost and Vincent have added sections on Italian, German, and American families to this English edition, thereby making it more comprehensive. Like the previous four volumes , this one has a theme--personal identity. The editors and authors pursue this theme in the same contexts used in the earlier volumes: in the workplace and the city, where private property and private activities have been subjects of controversy and objects of state control; in the home and family, where, increasingly, even sexual matters are not private; and in middle groups between state and individual--such as church. or mosque, or party--where more and more personal dramas are acted out in a world of cultural diversity. As Duby's foreword in the first volume indicated, A History of Private Life aims at an in-depth analysis of the evolution of personality as concept and reality in the Western world. Now complete in French and in English translation, the work is a tribute to the Annales approach of studying structural changes over long periods and to the late great historian Ariès, on whose schema Duby and the other editors drew.

--Reviewed by T. J. Knight in Choice, 29 , p. 1282.
Language
English
Pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Belknap Press
Release
July 15, 1998
ISBN
0674400046
ISBN 13
9780674400047

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