Course: History of Everyday Life of 19th and 20st Century

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Course title History of Everyday Life of 19th and 20st Century
Course code UHV/BKAZ3
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Lenderová Milena, prof. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
The origin of everyday history research. Social history and historical anthropology. Micro-history. History of mentalities. Material Culture: Industrialization and its social consequences. Urbanization and the face of the town. The birth of the modern town. Rural changes. Social structure and movements in society. Barter and consumption; the structure of consumption; business; shopping; the birth of the department store; advertising. Money and prices. House, flat, lease, sub-lease. Changes in private space, flat, furniture. Lightning and heating. Communal hygiene, household hygiene, personal hygiene. Health. Clothing and clothing fashion. Fashion as a "trouble". The origin of ready-made clothes and the fashion saloon. Eating and tabling. Home-made food, ways of public eating. Recipes and cookery books. Risks of eating.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to clarify the causes of contemporary consumer-oriented society formation by searching for its historical roots.
Students will understand the world of "historical practice", the everyday life of people in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on an inter-disciplinary concept of cultural history.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination

Credit depends upon active participation in lectures; a written examination, during which a student must demonstrate an orientation in the given field, plus knowledge of all the titles from the obligatory and recommended literature.
Recommended literature
  • HÁJKOVÁ, Dagmar et alii. Republika československá: 1918-1939. Praha. 2018.
  • Knapík, Jiří. Průvodce kulturním děním a životním stylem v českých zemích 1948-1967. Praha: Academia, 2011. ISBN 978-80-200-2019-2.
  • Lenderová, Milena a kol. Z dějin české každodennosti. Praha. 2017.


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