03363oam 22006014a 450 991079015670332120170816121626.01-4798-8514-20-8147-0863-310.18574/nyu/9780814708637(CKB)2670000000167719(EBL)865337(OCoLC)780425877(SSID)ssj0000606842(PQKBManifestationID)11357286(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606842(PQKBWorkID)10582470(PQKB)10169303(OCoLC)794701041(MdBmJHUP)muse10930(MiAaPQ)EBC865337(DE-B1597)548207(DE-B1597)9780814708637(EXLCZ)99267000000016771920050509d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican Behavioral History[electronic resource] An Introduction /edited by Peter N. StearnsNew York ;London :New York University Press,[2005]©20051 online resource (269 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-9844-6 0-8147-9843-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction / Peter N. Stearns -- Family and childhood -- The cute child and modern American parenting / Gary Cross -- Abduction stories that changed our lives: from Charley Ross to modern behavior / Paula Fass -- "If they have any orders, I am theirs to command": indulgent middle-class grandparents in American society / Linda W. Rosenzweig -- Emotions and consumer behavior -- There's no place like home: homesickness & homemaking in America / Susan J. Matt -- Horseless horses: car dealing and the survival of retail bargaining / Steven M. Gelber -- Death and mourning -- American death / Peter N. Stearns -- Laid out in "big mama's kitchen": African Americans and the personalized theme funeral / Suzanne Smith -- Perception of the senses -- Making scents make sense: white noses, black smells, and desegregation / Mark M. Smith -- Sexuality -- Tainted love: the transformation of oral-genital behavior in the United States, 1970-2000 / Kevin White.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 behPsychologyUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesSocial life and customsUnited StatesSocial conditionsElectronic books. PsychologyHistory.306/.0973Stearns Peter N183190MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910790156703321American Behavioral History3809256UNINA