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

by Peter N. Stearns and Carol Zisowitz Stearns

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226771520
• ISBN13: 9780226771526
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.9"