Suchergebnisse

1. Introduction 2. Psychological Basics PART I: THE AGRICULTURAL AGE 3. Early Agricultural Society 4. From the Philosophers: Happiness in the Classical Period 5. From the Great Religions: Happiness -- and Hope? 6. Popular Pleasures PART II: THE HAPPINESS REVOLUTION, 1700-1900 7. The Happiness Revolution in the West 8. The Expansion of Happiness? The New Expectations Encounter Industrial Society 9. Global Developments in the 18th and 19th Centuries PART III: HAPPINESS IN CONTEMPORARY WORLD HISTORY 10. Disputed Happiness, 1920-1945 11. Communist Happiness 12. Comparing Happiness in Contemporary Societies 13. Western Society in Contemporary History: Even Happier? 14. Happiness Goes Global 15. Conclusion

Childhood in Agricultural Societies: The First Big Changes -- Childhood in the Classical Civilizations -- Childhood in Postclassical World History -- Changes and Constraints in the Postclassical and Early Modern Centuries, 600- -- Children at Play -- Childhood in the Industrial Age -- Forces of Change in Western Society, 1750- -- New Constraints: The Impact of Colonialism -- The Immigrant Child -- Japan Adapts the New Model -- Childhood under Communism -- Children in the Industrializing World -- Childhood in the Affluent Societies -- The Dislocations of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries -- Globalization and Childhoods -- Conclusion: Patterns and Tensions in Childhood's History.

Part I -- early human societies -- Punishment in hunting and gathering societies -- Early civilizations and a transformation of punishment -- Part II -- the classical and postclassical periods -- The classical societies -- The postclassical period and the role of religion -- Part III -- the early modern period, 1450-1800 -- The empires of Asia and Eastern Europe -- New prisons and new ideas in Western Europe -- Punishment in the new European colonies -- Part IV -- the nineteenth century -- An age of reform and its limitations: Western Europe and beyond -- Reform efforts in Asia, Russia, and Latin America -- Punishment in the new empires: from the 19th century to the mid-1950s -- Part V -- the contemporary period -- Major changes -- Regional patterns in the contemporary period.

In a modern global historical context, scholars have often regarded piracy as an essentially European concept which was inappropriately applied by the expanding European powers to the rest of the world, mainly for the purpose of furthering colonial forms of domination in the economic, political, military, legal and cultural spheres. By contrast, this edited volume highlights the relevance of both European and non-European understandings of piracy to the development of global maritime security and freedom of navigation. It explores the significance of 'legal posturing' on the part of those accused of piracy, as well as the existence of non-European laws and regulations regarding piracy and related forms of maritime violence in the early modern era. The authors in Piracy in World History highlight cases from various parts of the early-modern world, thereby explaining piracy as a global phenomenon.

Why time? : the experience of early societies -- Time amid the classical civilizations and world religions -- The rise of the clock, 1400-1800 -- Imposing the clock : uses of time in industrial society, 1800-1920 -- Time in the world during the long 19th century -- Time in the past century.

Globalization and the challenge to historical analysis -- Emerging patterns of contact, 1200 bce -- 1000 ce : a preparatory phrase -- The birth of globalization? -- Transition : the Mongol period -- The main features of protoglobalization, 1500-1750 -- A late-eighteenth century transition -- The 1850s as turning point : the birth of modern globalization -- The great retreat, 1914-1945, and a new transition -- Contemporary globalization since the 1940s : A New Global History? -- A new retreat? Signs of disruption in the 21st Century -- Conclusion : the historical perspective.