The history of emotions

This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions and its intersection with emotion research in other disciplines. It discusses how the emotions intersect with other lines of historical research relating to power, practice, society and morality. The revised and fully updated second edition of the book demonstrates the field's centrality to historiographical practice, as well as the importance of this kind of historical work for general interdisciplinary understandings of the value and the meaning of human experience.

Rob Boddice is a Senior Researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences, Tampere University

Preface to the second edition Introduction 1 Historians and emotions 2 Words and concepts 3 Communities, regimes and styles 4 Power, politics and violence 5 Practice and expression 6 Experience, senses and the brain 7 Spaces, places and objects 8 Morality Conclusion Index