From the History of Czech Everyday Life

The second, expanded edition of the successful comprehensive publication about everyday life in the Czech lands in the 19th century. < br> < br> The "long" 19th century, the period from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the First World War, was not just the century of the birth of civil society, the time of the completion of political structures, diplomatic negotiations, few lasting peace treaties and wars. Pretty much regardless, what political regime was in place at the time, people ate, living and dressing, were starting families, they were raising children, aged and died. They travelled, they had fun, they read (the fashion for reading is a real phenomenon of the 19th century! ), they even started playing sports. They paid more attention to personal, household and communal hygiene. < br> Although the specific form of all these activities depended on their social status and financial possibilities, they constitute the real content of human life, as evidenced by a broad typology of sources. The authors worked with diaries and memoirs, correspondence, accounts, with contemporary professional literature (legal, pedagogical, medical), with print and visual sources and found that our ancestors, who populated the 19th century, weren't that different from us. < br> < br> Second edition, supplemented.