Emotions in American History : : An International Assessment /

Emotions in American History : : An International Assessment / / ed. by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht.

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The study of emotions has attracted anew the interest of scholars in various disciplines, igniting a lively public debate on the constructive and destructive power of emotions in society as well as within each of us. Most of the contributors to this volume do not hail from the United States but look...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Etges, Andreas,
Friedl, Bettina,
Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E.,
Gundlach, Horst U. K.,
Hilfrich, Fabian,
Hochgeschwender, Michael,
Lüdtke, Alf,
Martschukat, Jürgen,
Nagler, Jörg,
Saldern, Adelheid von,
Schneider, Stefanie,
Stearns, Peter N.,
Waldschmidt-Nelson, Britta,
HerausgeberIn:
Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E.,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:European Studies in American History ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (302 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • Introduction EMOTIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY The View from Europe
  • APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF HUMAN EMOTIONS
  • Chapter 1 EMOTIONS HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES Goals, Methods, and Promise
  • Chapter 2 EMOTIONS AT WORK Potential and Perspectives of the History of Everyday Life
  • EMOTIONS AND WAR
  • Chapter 3 THE CORRUPTION OF CIVIC VIRTUE BY EMOTION Anti-Imperialist Fears in the Debate on the Philippine-American War (1899–1902)
  • Chapter 4 THE MOBILIZATION OF EMOTIONS Propaganda and Social Violence on the American Home Front during World War I
  • Chapter 5 HANOI JANE, VIETNAM MEMORY, AND EMOTIONS
  • EMOTIONS, ART, AND THE MEDIA
  • Chapter 6 “STOP THEM DAMNED PICTURES” Political Cartoons, the Study of Emotions, and the Construction of the Anglo-American Relationship
  • Chapter 7 EMOTIONS OF COMPARISONS Perceptions of European Anti-Americanism in US Magazines of the 1920s
  • Chapter 8 EMOTIONS AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN ART
  • EMOTIONS AND SOCIETY
  • Chapter 9 A HORRIFYING EXPERIENCE? Public Executions and the Emotional Spectator in the New Republic
  • Chapter 10 EMOTIONS, AMERICAN SOCIETY, AND DISCOURSES ON SEXUALITY
  • Chapter 11 DOES EVERY VOTE COUNT IN AMERICA? Emotions, Elections, and the Quest for Black Political Empowerment
  • THE VIEW FROM THE OTHER SIDE: EMOTIONS AND PSYCHOLOGY
  • Chapter 12 THE FORTUNES OF EMOTION IN THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY AND IN THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS
  • INDEX

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