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  • Old Age in European Society
    Peter N. Stearns
    Originally published in 1977, Old Age in European Society provides an historical perspective on aging. Starting from the premise that ’the elderly can and should be active, participant members of their society’ the book examines the ways in which old people were and are viewed by certain key groups. ...
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    56,05 €

  • Hygiene in World History
    Peter N. Stearns
    This book offers a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of society’s basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease. ...
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    77,65 €

  • Consumerism in World History
    Peter N. Stearns
    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. ...
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    77,47 €

  • Globalization in World History
    Peter N. Stearns
    In this fully revised fourth edition, this book treats globalization from several vantage points, showing how these help grasp the nature of globalization both in the past and today. ...
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    74,64 €

  • Punishment in World History
    Peter N. Stearns
    This book focuses on major changes in punishment patterns during the principal phases of world history, tracing continuities, reforms, and regional differences. ...
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    74,78 €

  • Human Rights in World History
    Peter N. Stearns
    This book takes a global historical perspective to trace the rise of human rights and their global impact from the 18th century to the present. ...
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    69,30 €

  • Education in World History
    Mark S. Johnson / Peter N. Stearns
    Education in World History shows how broad currents in transnational history have interacted with trends in educational organization and teaching practices over time. ...
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    73,20 €

  • The Routledge History of Death since 1800
    Peter N. Stearns
    This book looks at how death has been treated and dealt with in modern history in a global context through a mix of definite, often quantifiable changes, and complex, qualitative assessment of the subject. It is ideal for those interested in death across time and space and in the rich and growing historiography on the subject. ...
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    98,34 €

  • Gender in World History
    Peter N. Stearns
    Gender in World History integrates gender history and world history by dealing with significant global changes over time, regional patterns of gender relations, and the results of interregional contact on gender roles and concepts. ...
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    74,69 €

  • World Past to World Present
    Peter N. Stearns
    World Past to World Present: A Sketch of Global History provides an unusually brief and present-focused treatment of human history beginning with the advent of agriculture and ending with considerable attention to world history developments since World War II. ...
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    72,80 €

  • Childhood in World History
    Peter N. Stearns
    Now in its fourth edition, Childhood in World History covers the major developments in the history of childhood from the classical civilizations to the present and explores how agricultural and industrial economies have shaped the experiences of children. ...
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    73,32 €

  • Happiness in World History
    Peter N. Stearns
    Happiness in World History traces ideas and experiences of happiness from early stages in human history, to the maturation of agricultural societies and their religious and philosophical systems, to the changes and diversities in the approach to happiness in the modern societies that began to emerge in the 18th century. ...
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    73,31 €

  • Time in World History
    Peter Stearns
    This book presents the fascinating concept of time through a global historical lens to explore 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. ...
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    74,91 €

  • Peacebuilding Through Dialogue
    Peter N Stearns
    This volume examines the many dimensions of dialogue as a key driver of peaceful personal and social change. While most people agree on the value of dialogue, few delve into its meaning or consider its full range. The essays collected here consider dialogue in the context of teaching and learning, personal and interpersonal growth, and in conflict resolution and other situation...
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    49,98 €

  • Tolerance in World History
    Peter Stearns
    This relatively short book will work to connect different periods and a number of key regions, to help clarify the record and the relationship between current tolerance patterns and those of the past. ...
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    77,51 €

  • Sexuality in World History
    Peter N. Stearns
    This book examines sexuality in the past, and explores how it helps explain sexuality in the present. The subject of sexuality is often a controversial one, and exploring it through a world history perspective emphasizes the extent to which societies, including our own, are still reacting to historical change through contemporary sexual behaviors, values, and debates. This new ...
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    74,70 €

  • The Industrial Turn in World History
    Peter Stearns
    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 explor...
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    77,57 €

  • Guiding the American University
    Peter N. Stearns
    Research-based and stemming from a range of case studies, this book’s insightful and fresh recommendations serve as an important contribution to the conversation on the future of American higher education. ...
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    92,37 €

  • Peace in World History
    Peter N. Stearns / Peter Stearns
    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 un...
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    74,74 €

  • World History
    Peter N. Stearns
    Written by one of the founders of the field and addressing all of the major issues, World History: The Basics is both an ideal introduction to world history and an important statement about the past, present and future of the field. ...
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    35,52 €

  • Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities
    Peter N. Stearns
    This book provides distinctive analysis of the full range of expressions in global education at a crucial time, when international competition rises, tensions with American foreign policy both complicate and motivate new activity, and a variety of innovations are taking shape. Citing best practices at a variety of institutions, the book provides practical coverage and guidance ...
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    92,22 €

  • From Alienation to Addiction
    Peter N. Stearns
    Over the past two hundred years, work experiences have changed greatly, causing issues such as heightened boredom and alienation, and but also new levels of obsession with work. This book looks at the modern changes in work, examining global patterns but also special features of the work culture in the United States. ...
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    57,30 €

  • Premodern Travel in World History
    Peter Stearns / Stephen Gosch
    Featuring some of the greatest travellers in human history, this survey uses succinct accounts of the most epic journeys in the premodern world as lenses through which to examine the development of early travel, trade and cultural interchange. ...
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    77,54 €

  • Revolutions in Sorrow
    Peter N. Stearns
    Huge changes have occurred in both the physical facts of death and in the cultural modes that guide our reactions to it ...
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    88,30 €

  • American Fear
    Peter N. Stearns
    After 9/11, fear has become an increasing issue in American society. Peter Stearns explores the historical causes and contemporary consequences of the high anxiety prevelant in American culture. ...
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    74,57 €

  • Western Civilization in World History
    Peter N. Stearns
    Western Civilization in World History takes up the recent debates about the well-established ’Western civ’ approach versus the newer field of world history. Stearns reviews and analyzes key aspects of Western civilization in a global context. ...
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    77,79 €

  • Millennium III, Century Xxi
    Peter N Stearns
    This book is intended as a survivor’s guide to turn-of-the-century and millennial furor. It offers data about events and relevant cultural traditions in the past and a framework within which to consider how we will interpret the waning age and how we can sensibly look ahead. ...
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    74,93 €

  • Meaning Over Memory
    Peter N. Stearns / Peter NStearns
    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 b...
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    70,79 €