The Routledge History of Happiness

1. A History of Happiness: an Introduction Part One: 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 Two: Classical and Postclassical 6. Happiness in the Classical Greco-Roman World 7. Qur'anic Happiness: With Remarks on Late Antique Fear of God, Asceticism, and Emotions as Moral Understanding 8. Medieval Happiness Reconsidered: The Unstable Human Heart in This World and the Next Part Three: 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 Four: 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 Five: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 Six: 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 Seven: Interdisciplinary Contexts 24. Decades of Scientific Research on Human Happiness: Questions, Findings, and Urgent Future

Katie Barclay is Head of Historical and Classical Studies and Co-Director of the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender, University of Adelaide. She writes widely on the history of emotions, gender and family life. Her recent publications include Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self (2021) and with Leanne Downing, Emotions, Memes and the Making of History (2023).

Darrin M. McMahon is the David W. Little Class of 1944 Professor and Chair of the Department History at Dartmouth College and the author or editor of eight books, including Happiness: A History (2006), History and Human Flourishing (2023), and most recently, Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea (2023).

Peter N. Stearns is a Distinguished University Professor of History at George Mason University. He has written widely about the history of emotion and a variety of topics in world history, including a short book on Happiness in World History (2021). With a colleague, he is currently completing a history of contemporary American childhood.