“Other Life”: European Influence on the Process of Modernization of Everyday-life in Šabac between the Two World Wars Cover Image

„Други живот”: Европски утицаји на процес модернизације свакодневног живота Шапца у периоду између два светска рата
“Other Life”: European Influence on the Process of Modernization of Everyday-life in Šabac between the Two World Wars

Author(s): Sanja Petrović Todosijević
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Udruženje za društvenu istoriju

Summary/Abstract: Europeisation of everyday life in Sabac between the two world wars represents а reality. Different parts of the society reacted differently to the process of modernization. А part of the pub!ic rejected with resignation all that comes from the West, while the other part expressed open tending for а better life and zealously accepted all achievements of modern way of life, primarily in the field of everyday !ife. In the light of the writting of Sabacki glasnik (The Messenger of Sabac) and Podrinski vesnik (The Herald orPodrinje ), Sabac was represented as "the gates of the West", as а town that, owing to its position, is under the influence of all that comes to the Balkans from the West. Achievements of the Western civilization are accepted in the areas of announcements and advertising.

  • Issue Year: IX/2002
  • Issue No: 1-3
  • Page Range: 123-145
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Serbian
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