American behavioral history : : an introduction / / edited by Peter N. Stearns.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, London : : New York University Press,, [2005] 2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 259 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Peter N. Stearns
- Family and childhood
- The cute child and modern American parenting / Gary Cross
- Abduction stories that changed our lives: from Charley Ross to modern behavior / Paula Fass
- "If they have any orders, I am theirs to command": indulgent middle-class grandparents in American society / Linda W. Rosenzweig
- Emotions and consumer behavior
- There's no place like home: homesickness & homemaking in America / Susan J. Matt
- Horseless horses: car dealing and the survival of retail bargaining / Steven M. Gelber
- Death and mourning
- American death / Peter N. Stearns
- Laid out in "big mama's kitchen": African Americans and the personalized theme funeral / Suzanne Smith
- Perception of the senses
- Making scents make sense: white noses, black smells, and desegregation / Mark M. Smith
- Sexuality
- Tainted love: the transformation of oral-genital behavior in the United States, 1970-2000 / Kevin White.