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- Provides a comprehensive overview of the history of European well-being from pre-modern times to its modern state of well-being
- Discusses positive and negative components of well-being throughout different nations in Europe
- Informs the reader on the political impact on well-being in history
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research (BRIEFSWELLBEING)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents a reconstruction of the history of well-being on the European continent with special attention to the European Union, as people from Europe have a history of a long-term march towards well-being. It discusses ancient civilizations on the European continent, which have contributed significantly to the features of well-being in contemporary Europe. Following Europe`s success over the past millennium, which brought the continent a unique rise to better well-being it also imposed new challenges for sustaining well-being and alleviating misery. It is shown that Europeans attained a high level of well-being in global comparison, yet their attitudes remained at the same time ambivalent and precarious. Significant parts of the population claim a low well-being and suffer from the difficulties of life. Even though a top ranked area of socio-economic development in the world, this book shows that poverty, inequality and hardship remain stable structural problems whichhave to be overcome in order to avoid significant restrictions for a broad quality of life. But despite all their burdens and hardships, Europeans are among the most prosperous and privileged people in the world.
Keywords
- Well-Being and Politics in Europe
- Europe and Well-Being
- History of European Well-Being
- European Union and Well-Being
- Nation-States of Europe
- Structures of Well-Being in Europe
- Awareness of Europeans Territory
- Economic Growth in Europe
- Heritage from Early Europeans
- Life Satisfaction in Europe
- Destruction of Well-Being through Wars and Plagues
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Wolfgang Glatzer
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: History and Politics of Well-Being in Europe
Authors: Wolfgang Glatzer
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05048-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05047-4Published: 28 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05048-1Published: 14 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2211-7644
Series E-ISSN: 2211-7652
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 84
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality of Life Research, European History, European Politics, European Culture, Social Structure, Social Inequality