- Additional Authors
- Stearns, Peter N.
- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 259 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- American behavioral history (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2005012783
- OCLC
- ssj0000606842
- Title
American behavioral history [electronic resource] : an introduction / edited by Peter N. Stearns.
- Imprint
New York : New York University Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Stearns, Peter N.