Joseph A Amato
Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History
- ISBN 13:
- 9780520232938
- author:
- Joseph A Amato
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of California Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2002
- Pages:
- 262
- Dimensions:
- 15.2 x 1.6 x 22.9 cm
- Genre:
- History, Other Historical Subjects, Historiography
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History by Joseph A. Amato offers a fresh perspective on the power of local history to revivify the individual, the concrete, and the particular in an era of global sensibilities. By exploring topics such as cleanliness, sound, anger, madness, and the environment, Amato demonstrates how local historians shape their work around tangible objects and institutions. This book provides a unique approach to writing local history, one that prioritises facts over theory and focuses on individual people, places, situations, and cases. With vivid portraits of everyday life in southwestern Minnesota, Rethinking Home also examines the role of environmental and ecological history in understanding contemporary transformations. By putting local history at the forefront, Amato advocates for a vital link between immediate experience and the broader world. This singular work offers new perspectives and approaches for energising local history, making it an essential read for anyone interested in the subject.
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