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Anger The Struggle for Emotional Control in America's History

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ISBN-10: 0226771520

ISBN-13: 9780226771526

Edition: 1986

Authors: Carol Zisowitz Stearns, Peter N. Stearns

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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, Angerdeals 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.
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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Peter N. Stearns is Provost and University Professor at George Mason University. Since 1967, he has served as editor-in-chief of The Journal of Social History.  His numerous books include World History in Documents ;  American Behavioral History ; and Anxious Parents .

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Background When the Gods Were Angry
The Early Victorian Synthesis Domestic Idealism
A New Approach to Anger Control 1860-1940, The American Ambivalence
Anger at Work A Contemporary Approach
The Managerial Style Raising Cool Kids
The Managerial Style Fighting Fair in Marriage
Conclusion Keeping the Lid On
Notes
Index