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Satisfaction not guaranteed : dilemmas of progress in modern society

Title
  1. Satisfaction not guaranteed : dilemmas of progress in modern society / Peter N. Stearns.
Published by
  1. New York : New York University Press, c2012.
Author
  1. Stearns, Peter N.

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Description
  1. ix, 270 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Civilization, Modern > 21st century
  2. Progress
Contents
  1. Introduction: being cheerful and modern -- The gap: happiness scales and the edge of sadness -- Component parts: modernity and ideas of happiness and progress as historical forces -- Modernity's deficiencies -- False starts and surprises: making modernity more difficult -- The dilemmas of work in modernity -- Death as a modern quandary -- Century of the child? Childhood, parenting, and modernity -- Born to shop: consumerism as the modern panacea.
Call number
  1. JFE 12-4344
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Stearns, Peter N.
Title
  1. Satisfaction not guaranteed : dilemmas of progress in modern society / Peter N. Stearns.
Imprint
  1. New York : New York University Press, c2012.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
  1. 2011045365
ISBN
  1. 9780814783627 (cl : alk. paper)
  2. 0814783627 (cl : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JFE 12-4344
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