Anger: The Struggle for Emotional Control in America's History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226771526)

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.

Author: Carol Zisowitz Stearns, Peter N. Stearns
ISBN-10: 0226771520
ISBN-13: 9780226771526
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 06/15/1989
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.88h x 5.65w x 0.80d