Facing fear
Subtitle: the history of an emotion in global perspective
By: Michael Laffan and Max Weiss, eds
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691153599; 9780691153605
Subjects: Modern History; Fear; World politics; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Fear and Its Opposites in the History of Emotions / Max Weiss; title: Fear of the Thirty Years War / David Lederer; title: Conceptions of Terror in the European Enlightenment / Ronald Schechter; title: "When Fear rather than Reason Dominates" : Priests behind the Lines in the Tupac Amaru Rebellion (1780-83) / Charles Walker; title: Fear in Colonial California and within the Borderlands / Lisbeth Haas; title: Weimar Cinema between Hypnosis and Enlightenment / Andreas Killen; title: Italian Fascism's Wartime Enemy and the Politics of Fear / Marla Stone; title: The Persecuted Body : Evangelical Internationalism, Islam, and the Politics of Fear / Melani McAlister; title: Danger, Media, and the Urban Experience in Delhi / Ravi Sundaram; title: Fear of the Past : Post-Soviet Culture and the Soviet Terror / Alexander Etkind; title: White Hajjis : Dutch Islamophobias Past and Present / Michael Laffan.