ISBN:
9780814798430
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (269 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version American Behavioral History : An Introduction
DDC:
306/.0973
Keywords:
Psychology ; United States ; History
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United States ; Social conditions
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United States ; Social life and customs
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Abstract:
From his founding of The Journal of Social History to his groundbreaking work on the history of emotions, weight, and parenting, Peter N. Stearns has pushed the boundaries of social history to new levels, presenting new insights into how people have lived and thought through the ages. Having established the history of emotions as a major subfield of social history, Stearns and his collaborators are poised to do the same thing with the study of human behavior. This is their manifesto. American Behavioral History deals with specific uses of historical data and analysis to illuminate American beh
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I Family and Childhood; 2 The Cute Child and Modern American Parenting; 3 Abduction Stories That Changed Our Lives: From Charley Ross to Modern Behavior; 4 "If They Have Any Orders, I Am Theirs to Command": Indulgent Middle-Class Grandparentsin American Society; Part II Emotions and Consumer Behavior; 5 There's No Place Like Home; 6 Horseless Horses: Car Dealing and the Survival of Retail Bargaining; Part III Death and Mourning; 7 American Death; 8 Laid Out in " Big Mama's Kitchen": African Americans and the Personalized Theme Funeral
Description / Table of Contents:
Part IV Perception of the Senses9 Making Scents Make Sense: White Noses, Black Smells, and Desegregation; Part V Sexuality; 10 Tainted Love: The Transformation of Oral-Genital Behaviorin the United States, 1970-2000; About the Contributors; Index;
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