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Fear: A Cultural History

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First published
2005
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556

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“Fear: A Cultural History” by Joanna Bourke is a remarkable exploration of fear over the past two hundred years. Fear, with its dark cacophony of associations fright, dread, horror, panic, alarm, anxiety, and terror stands as one of the most basic and powerful human emotions.

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Joanna Bourke

Joanna Bourke is a social and cultural historian whose scholarship examines emotion, gender, military culture, pain, and changing ideas of humanity. Fear: A Cultural History traces how people in modern societies have named, interpreted, and managed fear across roughly two centuries.

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First published
2005
Reading time
About 9 hours
Pages
556
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online