What Is the History of Emotions? offers an accessible path through the thicket of approaches, debates, and past and current trends in the history of emotions. A

The first accessible text book on the theories, methods, achievements and problems in this burgeoning field of historical inquiry.

Coming to terms with emotions and how they influence human behaviour, seems to be of the utmost importance to societies that are obsessed with everything “neu

The history of emotions is one of the fastest growing fields in current historical debate, and this is the first book-length introduction to the field, synthesi

A sweeping exploration of the ways in which emotions shaped the course of human history, and how our experience and understanding of emotions have evolved along