De Eeuw Van Mijn Vader by Geert Mak
A sweeping, accessible social history of twentieth-century Netherlands that uses the lives of one family and the residents of their provincial town as a lens to trace political, economic and cultural transformations from the prewar years through reconstruction and the welfare state's rise, decolonization, and late-century secularization. Vivid anecdotes and archival detail bring everyday experiences of work, migration, war, and leisure to life while linking personal memory to larger shifts—industrialization, changing political cleavages, and modernizing values—so that intimate family stories illuminate the nation's broader trajectory.
- Published
- 1999
- Nationality
- Dutch
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- Unknown
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- Original Language
- Dutch
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- Alternate Titles
- - The Century of My Father
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