This book is a large-scale study of how people interpreted their feelings and what they understood by emotions in the context of their time and their culture. Richard Firth-Godbecher, PhD, demonstrates how our experience of emotions has changed over the centuries, and how our ideas about feelings - as well as the feelings themselves - have shaped the world in which we live. From ancient times to the near future, from Socrates to artificial intelligence, from Ghana and India to China and Russia, we will see the course of human history in a new light.