Facing fear : the history of an emotion in global perspective /
Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernity. In these times of insti...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Fear and Its Opposites in the History of Emotions / Max Weiss
- Fear of the Thirty Years War / David Lederer
- Conceptions of Terror in the European Enlightenment / Ronald Schechter
- "When Fear rather than Reason Dominates" : Priests behind the Lines in the Tupac Amaru Rebellion (1780-83) / Charles Walker
- Fear in Colonial California and within the Borderlands / Lisbeth Haas
- Weimar Cinema between Hypnosis and Enlightenment / Andreas Killen
- Italian Fascism's Wartime Enemy and the Politics of Fear / Marla Stone
- The Persecuted Body : Evangelical Internationalism, Islam, and the Politics of Fear / Melani McAlister
- Danger, Media, and the Urban Experience in Delhi / Ravi Sundaram
- Fear of the Past : Post-Soviet Culture and the Soviet Terror / Alexander Etkind
- White Hajjis : Dutch Islamophobias Past and Present / Michael Laffan.
