Peter N Stearns
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English
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Thirty-six lectures that provide a survey of the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe, beginning with the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era and ending with the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Those seeking a primer on the field ... might well begin here." H. Childhood. H. Net Reviews.
"A succinet and deft survey ... Undoubtedly this book will be a godsend to teachers ... In the assured hands of Stearns, with his readily accessible style, readers will come away much better informed ..." Social History of Medicine. "Stearns's treatment is characteristically learned, conceptually sleek, and sensitive to societal and temporal variation."...
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University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Shame varies as an individual experience and its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through shame and shaming, while attempts at shaming often provoke a social or political backlash. Yet historians often neglect shame's power to complicate individual, international, cultural, and political relationships. Peter N. Stearns draws on his long career as a historian of emotions to provide the...
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University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
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In the midst of the heated battles swirling around American humanities education, Peter Stearns offers a reconsideration not of what we teach but of why and how we teach it. A humanities program, says Stearns, should teach students not just memorized facts but analytical skills that are vital for a critically informed citizenry. He urges the use of innovative research as the basis of such a curriculum, and he offers specific suggestions on translating...
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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For decades William L. Langer's best-selling Encyclopedia of World History was the indispensable, authoritative guide to all of human history. Now, under the direction of a distinguished new editor, comes an updated and dramatically improved version for a new generation. The result is a wholly accessible, absorbing canvas of world history that no student, scholar, or amateur historian should be without. Renowned historian Peter N. Stearns and thirty...
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
This course provides a survey of the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe. It begins with the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era and ends with the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.
