Fear
A Cultural History
$72.28
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
27 April 2006
Summary
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 agoraphobi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844081561 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844081567 |
| Author: | Professor Joanna Bourke, Joanna Bourke |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 27 April 2006 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 129mm x 35mm |
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Illuminating and unfailingly interesting
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 STANDARDAbout The Author
Professor Joanna Bourke
Joanna Bourke is a professor of history at Birkbeck College in London. Her book An Intimate History of Killing received critical acclaim, winning the Wolfson History Prize
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