Peter N. Stearns 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.
Series
Books
Western Civilization in World History
2003
Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History
National and International Perspectives
2000
Consumerism in World History
The Global Transformation of Desire
2001
World History
The Basics
2010
The Encyclopedia of World History
2001
World Civilizations
The Global Experience
1992
Cultures in Motion
Mapping Key Contacts and Their Imprints in World History
2001
World History in Documents
A Comparative Reader
1998
Sexuality in World History
2009
Childhood in World History
2005
Gender in World History
2000
A Brief History of the World
2007
Shame
A Brief History
2017
Fat History
Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West
1997
Globalization in World History
2009
Anxious Parents
A History of Modern Childrearing in America
2002
World History in Brief
Major Patterns of Change and Continuity
1990
1848
The Revolutionary Tide in Europe
1974
American Cool
Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style
1994
A Brief History of the World. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
2007
The Industrial Revolution in World History
1993
Growing Up
The History of Childhood in Global Context
2005
