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Fear

A Cultural History

By: Joanna Bourke

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Paperback | 19 January 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific: flames searing patterns on the ceiling, a hydrogen bomb, a terrorist. More often, anxiety overwhelms us from some source within: there is an irrational panic about venturing outside, a dread of failure, a premonition of doom.
In this astonishing book we encounter the fears and anxieties of hundreds of British and American men, women and children. From fear of the crowd to agoraphobia, from battle experiences to fear of nuclear attack, from cancer to AIDS, this is an utterly original insight into the mindset of the twentieth century from one of most brilliant historians and thinkers of our time.

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Illuminating and unfailingly interesting - Lucy Hughes-Hallett, SUNDAY TIMES

*'Joanna Bourke, graceful, shrewd, brilliantly compendious in research, has written a history as topical as your morning newspaper . . . This is a journey full of wit and scholarship, an enthralling read - Peter Preston, OBSERVER

*'Clever . . . original and complex - Piers Brendon, GUARDIAN

*'A fine book - EVENING STANDARD

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Non-Fiction History Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Family & Health Coping with / Advice about Personal, Social & Health Topics Coping with Anxiety & Phobias General & World History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Literature, Poetry & Plays Non-Fiction Prose

Miscellaneous Items

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Fear	p. 1
Afterword to the Introduction: The Face of Fear	p. 11
Worlds of Doom
Introduction	p. 23
Death	p. 25
Disasters	p. 51
Emotionology	p. 73
Spheres of Uncertainty
Introduction	p. 79
The Child	p. 81
Nightmares	p. 109
Phobias	p. 134
Psychohistory	p. 159
Whorls of Irrationality
Introduction	p. 165
Social Hysteria	p. 167
Fear versus Anxiety	p. 189
Zones of Confrontation
Introduction	p. 195
Combat	p. 197
Civilians Under Attack	p. 222
Nuclear Threats	p. 255
Narrativity	p. 287
Realms of Anxiety
Introduction	p. 293
The Body	p. 295
Strangers	p. 322
Aesthesiology	p. 353
Conclusion: Terror	p. 357
Notes	p. 393
Bibliography	p. 453
Index	p. 489
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