Emotions make history, and they have a history. They influence historical events such as revolutions, riots and protest movements. At the same time, they are shaped by historical experiences tied to family upbringing, educational and cultural institutions, work and the home.
Writing the History of Emotions shows how emotions like love, trust, honour, pride, shame, empathy and greed have impacted historical change since the 18th century and were themselves dependent on social, political and economic environments. Importantly, this book provides a timely exploration of racialized, gendered, class-based notions of emotions. This exciting addition to Bloomsbury’s successful Writing History series analyses how emotions matter in and to history, and how they are themselves objects of history.
Here, leading scholar Ute Frevert eschews a traditional chronological history of emotions in favour of an innovative collection which transgresses time periods to illustrate the different emotional meanings one particular material object has had throughout history. This book sheds light on how emotions have been used, instrumentalised and manipulated both to propel and suspend democratic politics. In doing so, it opens a rich new avenue of research for the history of emotions.
By:
Professor Ute Frevert (Yale University USA.)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350345874
ISBN 10: 1350345873
Series: Writing History
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 18 April 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1. Affects, Passions and Emotions: Historical Experiences and Historiographical Approaches Emotional Concepts and Practices 2. Trust Talk and Trust Work 3. Practising Honour: Social, Gender and Legal Perspectives 4. Honour and Shame in International Relations 5. Shame and Shaming in Modern History 6. Historicizing Empathy Emotional Economies of Capitalism 7. Capitalist Cold? Bringing Emotions Back In 8. How Does Homo Oeconomicus Cope with Emotions? 9. Greed and Avarice: Feelings about Money 10. Hans in Luck, or the Emotional Economy of Happiness in the Modern Age 11. Emotions and Material Culture: Say It with Flowers Politics of Emotion 12. Emotional Politics in Europe’s Long Nineteenth Century 13. Love and Hate, Faith and Despair under National Socialism 14. Emotional Styles and Political Cultures in East and West Germany Bibliography Index
Ute Frevert is President of the Max Weber Foundation, Germany, and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, where she leads the Center for the History of Emotions. She is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Ute Frevert has published extensively on the history of emotions in both English and German.
