Title: Fear : a cultural history /
Authors: Bourke, Joanna.
Publisher: Shoemaker Hoard,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Fear History.; Fear Social aspects History.
Abstract: "In this book, historian Joanna Bourke covers the landscape of fear over the past two hundred years: from the nineteenth-century dread of being buried alive to the current worry over being able to die when one chooses; from the diagnoses of phobias and anxieties produced by psychotherapists and lovingly catalogued, to the role of popular culture and media in inciting panic and dread; from the horrors of the nuclear age to the cold fear of twenty-first-century terrorism."--Jacket.
Contents: Death -- Disasters -- The child -- Nightmares -- Phobias -- Social hysteria -- Combat -- Civilians under attack -- Nuclear threats -- The body -- Strangers.