A Natural History of Human Emotions by Stuart Walton

A Natural History of Human Emotions by Stuart Walton

Using Charles Darwin's survey of emotions as a starting point, Stuart Walton's A Natural History of Human Emotions examines the history of each of our core emotions--fear, anger, disgust, sadness, jealousy, contempt, shame, embarrassment, surprise, and happiness--and how these emotions have influenced both cultural and social history. We learn that primitive fear served as the engine of religious belief, while a desire for happiness led to humankind's first musings on achieving a perfect utopia. Challenging the notion that human emotion has remained constant, A Natural History of Human Emotions explains why, in the last 250 years, society has changed its unwritten rules for what can be expressed in public and in private. Like An Intimate History of Humanity and Near a Thousand Tables, Walton's A Natural History of Human Emotions is a provocative examination of human feelings and a fascinating take on how emotions have shaped our past.

Since the early 1990s, Stuart Walton has been writing on alcoholic beverages. He is a wine writer for the Sussex Argus, Bella magazine, and the website www.wine-pages.com. He is a prolific writer and commenter on wines and spirits. He's also the author of The Global Encyclopedia of Wine, You Heard It Through The Grapevine, Out Of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication, and co-author of The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Wines, Beers, Spirits, and Liqueurs, as well as co-author of The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Wines, Beers, Spirits, and Liqueurs and The Right Wine with the Right Food.

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ISBN 13	9780802118042
ISBN 10	0802118046
Title	A Natural History of Human Emotions
Author	Stuart Walton
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Grove/Atlantic
Year published	2005-09-13
Number of pages	410
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