Fear
Subtitle: a cultural history
By: Joanna Bourke
Edition: 1st Shoemaker & Hoard ed
Publisher: Shoemaker Hoard; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Emeryville, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Fear -- History; Fear -- Social aspects -- History
Description: "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.
Notes: Originally published: London : Virago, 2005

Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-487) and index
Table of contents: title: Death; title: Disasters; title: The child; title: Nightmares; title: Phobias; title: Social hysteria; title: Combat; title: Civilians under attack; title: Nuclear threats; title: The body; title: Strangers