Anger - The Struggle for Emotional Control in America's History

In this groundbreaking social history, Carol and Peter Stearns trace the two hundred-year development of anger, beginning with premodern colonial America. Drawing on diaries and popular advice literature of key periods, "Anger" deals with the everyday experiences of the family and workplace in its examination of our attempts to control our domestic lives and lessen social tensions by harnessing emotion. Offering an entirely new approach to the study of emotion, the authors inaugurate a new field of study termed "emotionology," which distinguishes collective emotional standards from the experience of emotion itself.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Zisowitz Stearns, Peter N. Stearns, Stearns Carol Zisowitz, Carol Zisowitz
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.1989
• EAN: 9780226771526
• ISBN: 978-0-226-77152-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, HISTORY / United States / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, United States of America, USA, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, History of the Americas