American behavioral history
Subtitle: an introduction
By: edited by Peter N. Stearns
Contributors: Stearns, Peter N
Publisher: New York University
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Psychology -- United States -- History; United States -- Social conditions; United States -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Peter N. Stearns; title: Family and childhood; title: The cute child and modern American parenting / Gary Cross; title: Abduction stories that changed our lives: from Charley Ross to modern behavior / Paula S. Fass; title: "If they have any orders, I am theirs to command": indulgent middle-class grandparents in American society / Linda W. Rosenzweig; title: Emotions and consumer behavior; title: There's no place like home: homesickness and homemaking in America / Susan J. Matt; title: Horseless horses: car dealing and the survival of retail bargaining / Steven M. Gelber; title: Death and mourning; title: American death / Peter N. Stearns; title: Laid out in "Big Mama's kitchen": African Americans and the personalized theme funeral / Suzanne Smith; title: Perception of the senses; title: Making scents make sense: white noses, black smells, and desegregation / Mark M. Smith; title: Sexuality; title: Tainted love: the transformation of oral-genital behavior in the United States, 1970-2000 / Kevin White