Lost Words and Lost Worlds: Modernity and the Language of Everyday Life in Late Nineteenth-Century Stockholm

by Allan Pred

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In this original study of the transformation of late nineteenth-century Stockholm into a flourishing industrial capital, Allan Pred reconstructs the development of Stockholm's local economy, civil society and built environment through an interpretation of lost elements of language, of forgotten fragments of daily discourse, of lost words and meanings that belonged to members of the working and periodically employed classes. Pred demonstrates how the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521022258

ISBN13:9780521022255

Release Date:November 2005

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.01 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Cultural Europe History Human Geography Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Scandinavia Social Science Social Sciences Sweden

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