In this groundbreaking social history, Carol and Peter Stearns trace the two hundred-year development of anger, beginning with premodern colonial America....

The desire to acquire luxury goods and leisure services is a basic force in modern life. Consumerism in World History explores both the historical origins and world-wide appeal of this relatively modern phenomenon....

Organizations pour billions of dollars into programs that in the end prove to be nothing but fads--short lived \"enthusiasms\" with little purpose other than to make those who initiate and promote them rich. Brindle and Stearns analyze these vogues and fashions, and find that over a history of at least a century, there is continuity to them....

This book defines what the industrial revolution was and is, how it developed in several major societies around the world, and how it varied in each case....

This book has two foci: first, an examination of how work changed as societies industrialized. Modern work, not only in factories but also offices and elsewhere, has characteristics of speed, supervision, and subdivision of tasks that separate it from traditional forms of labor....

Renowned historian Peter Stearn presents an original and ground-breaking study on consumerism as both an international and historical phenomenon. The book is a fascinating exploration of the world in which we live, and is compulsive reading for the general reader and students alike....

This book defines what the industrial revolution was and is, how it developed in several major societies around the world, and how it varied in each case....