Fear : a cultural history / Joanna Bourke.

By:

Bourke, Joanna, 1963-

Material type:

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Emeryville, CA : Shoemaker Hoard : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2006.Edition: 1st Shoemaker & Hoard edDescription: xii, 500 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

1593761139
9781593761134

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DDC classification:

152.4/609034

LOC classification:

BF 575 B774f 2006

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Contents:

Death -- Disasters -- The child -- Nightmares -- Phobias -- Social hysteria -- Combat -- Civilians under attack -- Nuclear threats -- The body -- Strangers.

Summary: In this book, historian Joanna Bourke covers the landscape of fear over the past two hundred years: from the nineteenth-century dread of being buried alive to the current worry over being able to die when one chooses; from the diagnoses of phobias and anxieties produced by psychotherapists and lovingly catalogued, to the role of popular culture and media in inciting panic and dread; from the horrors of the nuclear age to the cold fear of twenty-first-century terrorism.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	BF 575 B774f 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000165221

Originally published: London : Virago, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-487) and index.

Death -- Disasters -- The child -- Nightmares -- Phobias -- Social hysteria -- Combat -- Civilians under attack -- Nuclear threats -- The body -- Strangers.

In this book, historian Joanna Bourke covers the landscape of fear over the past two hundred years: from the nineteenth-century dread of being buried alive to the current worry over being able to die when one chooses; from the diagnoses of phobias and anxieties produced by psychotherapists and lovingly catalogued, to the role of popular culture and media in inciting panic and dread; from the horrors of the nuclear age to the cold fear of twenty-first-century terrorism.

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