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The name comes from German, where Alltag means everyday life; it can thus be roughly translated as everyday-history. In this sense, alltagsgeschichte can be considered part of the wider Marxian historical school of ' History From Below '. The purpose of alltagsgeschichte is to find and prove the links between the down-to-earth, everyday, basic experiences of ordinary people in a society, and the broad social and political changes which occur in that society. Because this is such a massively broad endeavour to undertake, it can only feasibly be practised on the most minute of scales. Thus alltagsgeschichte becomes a form of microhistory. Alltagsgeschichte can also be linked to the Italian historical doctrine of Microstoria . PUBLICATIONS
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