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Title Facing fear [electronic resource] : the history of an emotion in global perspective / edited by Michael Laffan and Max Weiss.

Imprint Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 275 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Fear -- Social aspects -- History.
Fear -- Political aspects -- History.
History, Modern.
World politics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Laffan, Michael Francis, 1969-
Weiss, Max, 1977-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780691153599 (cloth alk. paper)
9780691153605 (paper alk. paper)
9781400845248 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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