Happiness in World History traces ideas and experiences of happiness from early stages in human history, to the maturation of agricultural societies and their r

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Much interest currently revolves around happiness in America, so much so that one could reasonably argue that there is a “happiness movement” afoot. The wid

The revolution of 1905 challenged not only the social and political structures of imperial Russia but the sexual order as well. Throughout the decade that follo