The Routledge History of Happiness (Routledge Histories)

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Table of Contents
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1 The History of Happiness: An Introduction
Part I: Continuity and Change
	2 Buddhism and Happiness: A Modern Romance or Tale as Old as Time?
	3 Happiness and Grieving Well: Family Bonds and Mourning Practices in China
	4 The Transition from Early to Modern Happiness in Bhutan
	5 Happiness in Old Age: A Very Brief History of a Complex Topic
Part II: Classical and Postclassical
	6 Happiness in the Classical Greco-Roman World
	7 Qur’anic Happiness: Feelings as Moral Understanding in Late Antiquity
	8 Medieval Happiness Reconsidered: The Unstable Human Heart in this World and the Next
Part III: Early Modern
	9 Historicizing Happiness Management in the Joseon Korean kingdom
	10 Family, Care and the Affective Universe of Novohispanic Baroque Happiness: The Chiaroscuros of an Enduring Tradition
	11 Shakespeare’s Unhappiness Archive and the Early Modern Social
	12 Western Laughter and Happiness in Transition
Part IV: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
	13 Happiness and the Enlightenment
	14 Happiness and Industrialization: Western Society in the Nineteenth Century
	15 Definitions of Happiness in Ottoman Syria: Hegemonic and Subordinate Voices During the Nineteenth Century
	16 Who Can be Happy in Russia?
Part V: Twentieth Century
	17 “We Strive to Make the People a Little Happier Every Day”: Political Discourse and Practices of Happiness in Brazil and Argentina in Mid-Twentieth Century
	18 Happiness and the Origins of Modern Consumerism
	19 The Rise of Positive Psychology
	20 Politics and Happiness, an Unhappy Inheritance: Liberal Democracies and the Return of Fascist Populism
Part VI: Twenty-First Century
	21 How to be Happy in Botswana
	22 Happy Japan: An Essay
	23 In Pursuit of the Good Life: Young Men’s Cultivation of Enjoyment in Niger
Part VII: Interdisciplinary Contexts
	24 The History of Happiness in Academic Psychology
	25 Decades of Scientific Research on Human Happiness: Questions, Findings, and Urgent Future Directions
	26 Contemporary Happiness Efforts
	27 Epilogue: Joy’s Futures
Index