Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Philosophy of Leisure -- 3.Leisure and Human Nature -- 4.Leisure in Classical History -- 5.Leisure, Islam and Byzantium -- 6.Leisure in the Middle Ages -- 7.Leisure in Japan, China and India -- 8.Early Modern Leisure -- 9.Leisure in Modernity -- 10.Leisure in Historiography -- 11.Future Histories of Leisure -- 12.Conclusions.
