"Explains brilliantly the structures and processes of middle-class culture in historical perspective."--Robert Nye, Rutgers University "[This] illuminating study of the Swedish middle class around the turn of the century ...is one welcome sign that bourgeois, too, are once again recognized as parts of society worth studying ...to be understood rather than to be savaged. Culture Builders is a welcome sign of yet another development: the ease with which historical studies may be integrated with neighboring disciplines."--Journal of Modern History "The authors take an impressively broad intellectual perspective...The everyday routines of bourgeoisie, peasantry, and working class are dramatically portrayed through a skillful weaving together of excerpts from ethnological archives, schoolbooks, memoirs, novels, and etiquette manuals ...provides insight into the sociocultural complexities, conflicts, and contradictions that are ignored in widely held national stereotypes."
--American Anthropologist "Unites historical and ethnological approaches so as to present a way of life that will be of interest not only to scholars of Scandinavia but to historians, sociologists, and everyone trying to describe and interpret the bourgeois Western culture during the nineteenth century."--Ethnos Jonas Frykman and Orvar Lofgren teach in the Department of European Ethnology at the University of Lund, Sweden.
- ISBN10 0813512093
- ISBN13 9780813512099
- Publish Date 30 April 1987 (first published 1 April 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rutgers University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English