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Titolo: |
Emotions in American history : an international assessment / / edited by Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
Disciplina: | 152.4 |
Soggetto topico: | Emotions - Social aspects - United States - History |
Emotions - Political aspects - United States - History | |
Social change - United States - History | |
Emotions - Historiography | |
Historiography - Psychological aspects | |
Historiography - Social aspects | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States History |
United States Social conditions | |
United States Politics and government | |
United States Intellectual life | |
Altri autori: |
Gienow-HechtJessica C. E. <1964->
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Emotions in American History; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction - Emotions in American History; Chapter 1 - Emotions History in the United States; Chapter 2 - Emotions at Work; Chapter 3 - The Corruption of Civic Virtue by Emotion; Chapter 4 - The Mobilization of Emotions; Chapter 5 - Hanoi Jane, Vietnam Memory, and Emotions; Chapter 6 - ""Stop Them Damned Pictures""; Chapter 7 - Emotions of Comparisons; Chapter 8 - Emotions and Nineteenth-Century American Art; Chapter 9 - A Horrifying Experience? |
Chapter 10 - Emotions, American Society, and Discourses on SexualityChapter 11 - Does Every Vote Count in America?; Chapter 12 - The Fortunes of Emotion in the Science of Psychology and in the History of Emotions; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | The study of emotions has attracted anew the interest of scholars in various disciplines, igniting a lively public debate on the constructive and destructive power of emotions in society as well as within each of us. Most of the contributors to this volume do not hail from the United States but look at the nation from abroad. They explore the role of emotions in history and ask how that exploration changes what we know about national and international history, and in turn how that affects the methodological study of history. In particular they focus on emotions in American history between the |
Titolo autorizzato: | Emotions in American history ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-62722-8 |
9786612627224 | |
1-84545-819-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910811422803321 |
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