American Behavioral History [[electronic resource] ] : An Introduction / / edited by Peter N. Stearns
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| Titolo: |
American Behavioral History [[electronic resource] ] : An Introduction / / edited by Peter N. Stearns
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; London : , : New York University Press, , [2005] |
| ©2005 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306/.0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Psychology - United States - History |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social life and customs |
| United States Social conditions | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
StearnsPeter N
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | American Behavioral History |
| ISBN: | 1-4798-8514-2 |
| 0-8147-0863-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790156703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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