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Modern history of the common man at its best,
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This review is from: Jorwerd: The Death of the Village in Late 20th Century Europe (Paperback)
Read it and think back of the good old times.Geert Mak describes the enormous changes that happened in small Dutch villages (and probably all over the western world) in the 1970's: the local grocery shop disappeared, due to smaller-sized families the local school had to close down, people went to work in nearby cities becoming commuters instead of traditional farmers and even the farms changed: no more horses and small fields, but tractors, lorries and enormous fields. And what is amazing is that it happened without people realizing that a way of life got lost forever: it was truely a silent revolution. In this book Geert Mak succeeds fully in describing the process of this revolution, the small changes creeping into the apparently static society of a small village in rural Frisia by telling the simple life stories of farmers, grocers, even the local music club. Geert Mak is a renowned Dutch journalist and it shows in his way of writing: the style is smooth and fascinating with an avid eye for detail as well as the human angle. |
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Jorwerd: The Death of the Village in Late 20th Century Europe by Geert Mak (Paperback - Mar. 2001)
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