DescriptionEnter Everyday Life Through the Ages. How Ordinary People Lived-From the Stone Age to the Twentieth Century. Explore the lives and homes of Russian peasants, venetian, merchants, Spanish monks, English coal miners, American Indians, and Australian aborigines. A lavishly illustrated social history chronicles the daily lives of ordinary people from the Stone Age to the twentieth century. Utilizing more than nine hundred photographs, drawings, maps, and paintings to present recreations of everyday events and customs.Find out when soap was first made, who invented indoor plumbing. how the Vikings kept house, what it was like to be a slave on a tobacco plantation, and how people lived in Florence under the Medicis. Learn what people throughout history ate and wore, how they worked and played, how they built and furnished their homes, and how they treated their illnesses.Enter Everyday Life Through the Ages is a fast-paced, lavishly illustrated social history of the world. brings these little-known and long-forgotten day-to-day details to life. The book actually reverses the way history is often told. It puts these fascinating daily human activities (the really interesting part of his-tory) in the forefront and lets the great battles, the major inventions, and the rise and fall of empires serve as backdrop.Beginning with the Stone Age and moving chronologically to the turn of the 20th century, this highly readable history of everyday life shows us not only how different our life is from life in other times. but also how it is sometimes surprisingly similar.
