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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.Description: x, 275 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 152.4/609 23
LOC classification:
  • D210 .F23 2012eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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