Peter Stearns

Peter N. Stearns (born 1936) is a professor at George Mason University, where he was provost, from January 1, 2000 to July 2014.

Stearns was Chair of the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University and also served as the Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. In addition, he founded and edited the Journal of Social History. While at Carnegie Mellon he developed a pioneering approach to teaching World History.

Life

Besides his long career as a historian, he is active in historical groups such as the American Historical Society, the Society for French Historical Studies, the Social Science History Association and the International Society for Research on Emotion. He attended Harvard College and later received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

In his prolific career as an author and editor, he has written or edited over 100 works of literature. Stearns once served as chair of the Advanced Placement World History committee.

Works

His books include:

• 1848: The Revolutionary Tide in Europe, Norton, 1974
• A Day in the Life
• American Behavioral History
• American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-century Emotional Style. NYU Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-8147-7996-5. 
• Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America. NYU Press. 1 November 2004. ISBN 978-0-8147-9849-2. 
• Carol Zisowitz Stearns; Peter N. Stearns (15 June 1989). Anger: The Struggle for Emotional Control in America's History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-77152-6. 
• Battleground of Desire
• Childhood in World History. Routledge. 2 May 2006. pp. 2â€". ISBN 978-1-134-26260-1. 
• Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire. Routledge. 18 April 2006. pp. 2â€". ISBN 978-1-134-15677-1. 
• Cultures in Motion
• Documents in World History
• Emotion and Social Change
• Encyclopedia of European Social History
• The Encyclopedia of World History
• Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West. NYU Press. 1 September 2002. ISBN 978-0-8147-3982-2. 
• Gender in World History. Routledge. 18 April 2006. pp. 3â€". ISBN 978-1-134-15669-6. 
• Global Outrage
• Globalization in World History. Routledge. 20 October 2009. ISBN 978-1-135-25993-8. 
• Growing Up: The History of Childhood in a Global Context. Baylor University Press. 1 January 2005. ISBN 978-1-932792-28-7. 
• Human Rights in World History. Routledge. 4 May 2012. ISBN 978-1-136-31812-2. 
• The Industrial Revolution in World History. Westview Press. 7 August 2012. ISBN 978-0-8133-4730-1. 
• Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives
• Lives of Labour: Work in a Maturing Industrial Society (1975)
• Peace in World History. Taylor & Francis. 3 April 2014. ISBN 978-1-134-75721-3. 
• Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society. NYU Press. 30 April 2012. ISBN 978-0-8147-8855-4. 
• Sexuality in World History. Routledge. 18 February 2009. pp. 3â€". ISBN 978-1-135-96896-0. 
• The Revolutions of 1848 (1974)
• Western Civilization in World History. Routledge. 28 January 2008. pp. 1â€". ISBN 978-1-134-37475-5. 
• World Civilizations
• World History in Brief
• World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity

See also

• List of Carnegie Mellon University people
• List of Harvard University people
• List of historians
• List of people from Virginia

Notes

References

• Chair, AP World History Development Committee