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Index
PART IThe Modern and the Happy
PART II
PART III
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Being Cheerful and Modern
PART I. The Modern and the Happy: A Tenuous Embrace
2 The Gap: Happiness Scales and the Edge of Sadness
3 Component Parts: Modernity and Ideas of Happiness and Progress as Historical Forces
PART II. Maladjustments in Modernity
4 Modernity’s Deficiencies
5 False Starts and Surprises: Making Modernity More Difficult
6 The Dilemmas of Work in Modernity
PART III. Great Expectations
7 Death as a Modern Quandary
8 Century of the Child? Childhood, Parenting, and Modernity
9 Born to Shop: Consumerism as the Modern Panacea
Conclusion: Shaping Modernity
Notes
Index
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