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Emotions in American history : an international assessment

Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E., 1964- (editor.).

Summary: 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 at the nation from abroad. They explore the role of emotions in history and ask how that exploration changes what we know about national and international history, and in turn how that affects the methodological study of history. In particular they focus on emotions in American history between the 18th century and the present: in war, in social and political discourse, as well as in art and the media. In addition to case studies, the volume includes a review of their fields by senior scholars, who offer new insights regarding future research projects.

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ISBN: 1845456424
ISBN: 9781845456429
ISBN: 1845458192
ISBN: 9781845458195
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Emotions in American history : the view from Europe / Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht -- Approaches to the study of human emotions. Emotions history in the United States : goals, methods, and promise / Peter N. Stearns -- Emotions at work : potential and perspectives of the history of everyday life / Alf Lüdtke -- Emotions and war. The corruption of civic virtue by emotion : anti-imperialist fears in the debate on the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) / Fabian Hilfrich -- The mobilization of emotions : propaganda and social violence on the American home front during World War I / Jörg Nagler -- Hanoi Jane, Vietnam memory, and emotions / Andreas Etges -- Emotions, art, and the media. "Stop them damned pictures" : political cartoons, the study of emotions, and the construction of the Anglo-American relationship / Stefanie Schneider -- Emotions of comparisons : perceptions of European anti-Americanism in US magazines of the 1920s / Adelheid von Saldern -- Emotions and nineteenth-century American art / Bettina Friedl -- Emotions and society. A horrifying experience? Public executions and the emotional spectator in the new Republic / Jürgen Martschukat -- Emotions, American society, and discourses on sexuality / Michael Hochgeschwender -- Does every vote count in America? Emotions, elections, and the quest for Black political empowerment / Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson -- The view from the other side : emotions and psychology. The fortunes of emotion in the science of psychology and in the history of emotions / Horst U.K. Gundlach.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.