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A guide for historical study of the relationship between people and their things

 

"DAILY LIFE" BOOKS (HARD COPY)

The library owns numerous books that present introductory information about everyday life in various historical eras. These books can be useful research tools when writing your interpretation and/or cultural analysis of an object.

 

AFRICA

  • Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (1998) -- DS69.5 .N4 1998
  • Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire (2006) -- DF521 .R37 2006
  • Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age: From Alexander to Cleopatra (2008) -- DE71 .E98 2008
  • Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (2005) -- DS36.855 .L56 2005
  • Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (2011) -- DR432 .K43 2011
  • Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians (1999) -- DT61 .B685 1999
  • Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians (2008) -- DT61 .B685 2008
  • Everyday Life in Ancient Times: Highlights of the Beginnings of Western Civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome (1951) -- CB311 .N3 1951
  • The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (1975) -- DT61 .C34 1975


AMERICAS

  • After the Revolution: The Smithsonian History of Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century (1985) -- E163 .S63
  • Americans of 1776: Daily Life in Revolutionary America (1976) -- E163 .S37 1976
  • Child Life in Colonial Days (1899) -- E162 .E13 1975
  • Daily Life During African American Migrations (2012) -- E185 .P44 2012
  • Daily Life During World War I (2002) --  D521 .H427 2002
  • Daily Life in Colonial Peru 1710-1820 (1968) -- F3444 .D413 1968b
  • Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1820-1870 (2008) -- JV6453 .B47 2008
  • Daily Life in Maya Civilization (1996) -- F1435 .S54 1996
  • Daily Life in Maya Civilization (2009) -- F1435 .S54 2009
  • Daily Life in the 1960s Counterculture (2019) -- HN59 .W5253 2019
  • Daily Life in the Age of Sail (2002) -- VK149 .V65 2002
  • Daily Life in the Inca Empire (1996) -- F3429 .M26 1996
  • Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939 (2002) -- E169 .K985 2002
  • Daily Life in the United States, 1940-1959 (2000) -- E169 .K139 2000
  • Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990 (1997) -- E169.02 .M3547 1997
  • Daily Life of the Aztecs (1998) -- F1219.73 .C355 1998
  • Daily Life of the Aztecs (2011) -- F1219.73 .C355 2011
  • Everyday Life in Early America (1989) -- E162 .H3 1989
  • Everyday Life of the North American Indian (1979) -- E98.S7 W48 1979
  • The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876 (1990) -- E168 .S957 1990
  • Home Life in Colonial Days (1898) -- E162 .E18 1989
  • Pleasure and Privilege: Daily Life in France, Naples, and America, 1770-1790 (1981) -- DC33.4 .B36 1981
  • Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915 (1991) -- E168 .S35 1991


ASIA

  • China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty (2004) -- DS749.35 .B46 2004
  • Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (1998) -- DS69.5 .N4 1998
  • Daily Life in Bible Times (1943) -- DS112 .B27 1943
  • Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276 (1970) -- DS721 .G413 1970
  • Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire (2006) -- DF521 .R37 2006
  • Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age: From Alexander to Cleopatra (2008) -- DE71 .E98 2008
  • Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (2005) -- DS36.855 .L56 2005
  • Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (2011) -- DR432 .K43 2011
  • Daily Life in the Time of Jesus (1962) -- DS112 .D233 1962
  • Daily Life in Traditional China: The Tang Dynasty (2002) -- DS721 .B44 2002
  • Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868 (1997) -- DS822.2 .N558 1997
  • Everyday Life in Ancient Times: Highlights of the Beginnings of Western Civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome (1951) -- CB311 .N3 1951
  • Everyday Life in Bible Times (1967) -- BS620 .N37 1967
  • Everyday Life in Early Imperial China During the Han Period 202 B. C.-A. D. 220 (1970) -- DS748 .L58 1970
  • Life in Biblical Israel (2001) -- DS112 .K48 2001
  • Women's Lives in Biblical Times (2010) -- DS112 .E19 2010


EUROPE

  • The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome (1998) -- DE59 .C59 1998
  • The British Soldier: His Daily Life from Tudor to Modern Times (1955) -- U767 .D4
  • Daily Life During the Black Death (2006) --  RC172 .B97 2006
  • Daily Life During World War I (2002) --  D521 .H427 2002
  • Daily Life in 18th-Century England (1999) -- DA485 .O47 1999
  • Daily Life in Ancient Rome (1993) --  DG78 .D8713 1993
  • Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire (1940) -- DG78 .C32 1940
  • Daily Life in Chaucer's England (1995) -- DA185 .S48 1995
  • Daily Life in Elizabethan England (1995) -- DA320 .S56 1995
  • Daily Life in Elizabethan England (2010) -- DA320 .S56 2010
  • Daily Life in Greece at the Time of Pericles [5th century BC] (1965) -- DF78 .F5513 1965
  • Daily Life in Johnson's London [18th century] (1983) -- DA682 .S38 1983
  • Daily Life in Medieval Europe (1999) --  D119 .S55 1999
  • Daily Life in Renaissance Italy (2001) -- DG445 .C48 2001
  • Daily Life in Spain in the Golden Age [16th-17th centuries] (1971) -- DP48 .D3813 1971
  • Daily Life in the Age of Charlemagne (2002) -- DC73 .B86 2002
  • Daily Life in the Age of Sail (2002) -- VK149 .V65 2002
  • Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire (2006) -- DF521 .R37 2006
  • Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age: From Alexander to Cleopatra (2008) -- DE71 .E98 2008s
  • Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (2005) -- DS36.855 .L56 2005
  • Daily Life in the Middle Ages (2001) -- CB353 .N46 2001
  • Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (2011) -- DR432 .K43 2011
  • Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia (2004) -- DG78 .A53 2004
  • Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne [8th century] (1978) -- DC33.2 .R5413
  • Daily Life in Venice in the Time of Casanova [18th century] (1972) -- DG675.6 .A5513
  • Daily Life in Victorian England (1996) -- DA533 .M675 1996
  • Daily Life in Victorian England (2009) -- DA533 .M675 2009
  • Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks (1998) -- DF78 .G276 1998
  • Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks (2009) --  DF78 .G276 2009
  • Daily Life of the Jews in the Middle Ages (2005) -- DS112 .R767 2005
  • A Day in Old Athens: A Picture of Athenian Life (1914) -- DF275 .D25 1914
  • A Day in Old Rome: A Picture of Roman Life (1925) -- DG78 .D15 1925
  • Everyday Life in Ancient Greece (1933) -- DF91 .R6 1933
  • Everyday Life in Ancient Times: Highlights of the Beginnings of Western Civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome (1951) -- CB311 .N3 1951
  • Everyday Life in Rome in the Time of Caesar and Cicero (1930) -- DG90 .T75 1930
  • Everyday Life in the Middle Ages (1978) -- D127 .C55 1978
  • The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Ancient Rome (1975) -- DG78 .C37 1975
  • The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy (1975) -- DG735.6 .M43 1975
  • The Horizon Book of Daily Life in the Middle Ages (1975) -- DC33.2 .W56
  • The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Victorian England (1975) -- DA533 .H5
  • Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945 (2005) -- DS135 .G32 J49 2004
  • Life in a Medieval Village (1991) -- HN398 .E45 G54 1991
  • Life in the Middle Ages (1983) -- CB351 .D4413 1983
  • Pleasure and Privilege: Daily Life in France, Naples, and America, 1770-1790 (1981) -- DC33.4 .B36 1981
  • What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist: The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England (1994) --  PR468 .S6 P66 1994
  • The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World (1999) -- DA152.2 .L33 1999
  • The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman's World (1999) -- DA152.2 .L33 2000
  • The Yorkist Age: Daily Life During the Wars of the Roses [15th century] (1962) -- DA245 .K4 1962