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020 _a9780814783634
020 _z9780814783627 (cl : alk. paper)
020 _z9780814788554 (ebook)
020 _z0814783627
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aCB430
_b.S74 2012
082 0 0 _a909.83
_223
100 1 _aStearns, Peter N.
245 1 0 _aSatisfaction not guaranteed
_h[electronic resource] :
_bdilemmas of progress in modern society /
_cPeter N. Stearns.
260 _aNew York :
_bNew York University Press,
_cc2012.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (p. cm.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aProgress.
650 0 _aCivilization, Modern
_y21st century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814783634/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c34706
_d34706