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  • World History

    The Basics

    by Peter N. Stearns ...
    Series series The Basics
    World history continues to evolve as one of the most popular and widely discussed approaches to the study of history. The second edition of World History: The Basics offers an updated introduction of this fast-growing field, addressing key questions such as:What is world history?How do we study a subject with such a broad geographic and chronological range?Why has world history been controversial ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Industrial Turn in World History

    by Peter Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N. Stearns presents a concise yet far reaching overview of the worldwide shift from agricultural societies to industrial societies over the past two centuries. Putting the implications for individuals and societies in global context while simultaneously considering the limits of generalization across cultures, Stearns’s text explores the nature of ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Western Civilization in World History

    by Peter N. Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    Western civilization and world history are often seen as different, or even mutually exclusive, routes into historical studies. This volume shows that they can be successfully linked, providing a tool to see each subject in the context of the other, identifying influences and connections.Western Civilization in World History takes up the recent debates about the merits of the well-established ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Shame

    A Brief History

    by Peter N. Stearns ...
    Series series History of Emotions
    Shame varies as an individual experience and in 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 ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Anxious Parents

    A History of Modern Childrearing in America

    by Peter N. Stearns ...
    An examination into the history of modern parentingThe nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw a dramatic shift in the role of children in American society and families. No longer necessary for labor, children became economic liabilities and twentieth-century parents exhibited a new level of anxiety concerning the welfare of their children and their own ability to parent effectively. What caused ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Hygiene in World History

    by Peter N. Stearns ...
    Narrated by Joel Richards ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 30 min

    This book features a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of society's basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease.Hygiene offers an important lens for major aspects of world and comparative history. The volume explores the ways different regions and major religions approached hygiene both before modern times and through the present with the more recent ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Industrial Revolution in World History

    by Peter N. Stearns ...
    Now in its sixth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors that helped launch the industrial revolution, its global spread and its impact from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day.The single most important development in human history over the past three centuries, the industrial revolution ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Hygiene in World History

    by Peter N. Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    This book features a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of society’s basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease.Hygiene offers an important lens for major aspects of world and comparative history. The volume explores the ways different regions and major religions approached hygiene both before modern times and through the present with the more recent ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Consumerism in World History

    The Global Transformation of Desire

    by Peter N. Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    The third edition of Consumerism in World History explores the nature of consumerism and its evolution, with particular emphasis on the modern “consumer revolution” and its global scope.The book deals with crucial interpretive issues, such as whether consumerism is a natural human expression or involves other causes, the relationship between consumer apparatus (such as shops and advertising) and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Time in World History

    by Peter Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    In this book, Peter Stearns presents the fascinating concept of time through a global historical lens. Covering both calendrical time and clock time, the volume shows how significant changes in conceptions of time are in world history, as they translate many key historical developments from religion to industrialization, into daily experience.The book explores why and how early societies became ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Peace in World History

    by Peter Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    In Peace in World History, Peter N. Stearns examines the ideas of peace that have existed throughout history, and how societies have sought to put them into practice. Beginning with the status of peace in early hunter-gatherer and agricultural societies, and continuing through the present day, the narrative gives students a clear view of the ways people across the world have understood and striven ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Tolerance in World History

    by Peter Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    This volume draws together the many discrete studies of tolerance to create a global and comprehensive synthesis. In a concise text, author Peter Stearns makes connections across time periods and key regions, to help clarify the record and the relationship between current tolerance patterns and those of the past. The work is timely in light of the obvious tensions around tolerance in the world ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD