Battleground of Desire: The Struggle for Self Control in Modern America
by Peter N. Stearns
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In recent years, Peter N. Stearns has established himself as the foremost historian of American emotional life. In books on anger, jealousy, ""coolness,"" and body image, he has mapped out the basic terrain of the American psyche. Now Stearns crowns his work of the past decade with this powerful volume, in which he reveals the fundamental dichotomy at the heart of the national character: a self-indulgent hedonism and the famed American informality on the one hand, and a deeply imbedded show more repressiveness on the other. Whether hunting and gathering tribe or complex industrial civilization, every so show lessTags
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Peter N. Stearns is University Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. He has written and taught widely on subjects in world history and has researched several aspects of the modern history of parenting and childhood. He also serves on the editorial board of the leading journal on childhood history.
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