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Subtitle: dilemmas of progress in modern society
By: Peter N. Stearns
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780814783627; 9780814783634; 9780814788554
Subjects: Progress; Modern Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: being cheerful and modern; title: The gap: happiness scales and the edge of sadness; title: Component parts: modernity and ideas of happiness and progress as historical forces; title: Modernity's deficiencies; title: False starts and surprises: making modernity more difficult; title: The dilemmas of work in modernity; title: Death as a modern quandary; title: Century of the child? Childhood, parenting, and modernity; title: Born to shop: consumerism as the modern panacea.