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Peter Nathaniel Stearns (born March 3, 1936) is a professor at George Mason University, where he was provost from January 1, 2000 to July 2014. [1]Stearns was chair of the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University and also served as the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (now named Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences) at Carnegie Mellon University.
He is the author of The Beatles and Sixties Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2020), [2] Modern Love (Atlantic, 2003), [3] co-author with Peter Stearns of Why Study History? (LPP, 2020) [4] and editor of The Permissive Society and Its Enemies (Rivers Oram, 2007). [5]
The Journal of Social History was founded in 1967 and has been edited since then by Peter Stearns.The journal covers social history in all regions and time periods.. Articles in the journal frequently combine sociohistorical analysis between Latin America, Africa, Asia, Russia, Western Europe, and the United States.
The Encyclopedia of World History is a classic single-volume work detailing world history. The first through fifth editions were edited by William L. Langer. The Sixth Edition contained over 20,000 entries and was overseen by Peter N. Stearns. It was made available online until removed in 2009.
The field is also the specialty of the Journal of Social History, edited since 1967 by Peter Stearns [12] It covers such topics as gender relations; race in American history; the history of personal relationships; consumerism; sexuality; the social history of politics; crime and punishment, and history of the senses. Most of the major ...
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On March 16, 2008, Bear Stearns agreed to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for $2 per share. The deal capped a breathtakingly rapid fall from grace of one of the major Wall Street players as the ...
In the last decade, [which?] the history of emotions has developed into an increasing productive and intellectually stimulating area of historical research. Although there are precursors of the history of emotions - especially Febvre's Histoire des Sensibilités [1] or Gay's Psychohistory [2] - the field converges methodologically with newer historiographical approaches such as conceptual ...