Shame: A Brief History

by Peter N. Stearns

Book Overview

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 long career as a historian of emotions to provide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252082923
• ISBN13: 9780252082924
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"