TY - BOOK AU - Bourke,Joanna TI - Fear: a cultural history SN - 1593761139 AV - BF 575 B774f 2006 U1 - 152.4/609034 PY - 2006/// CY - Emeryville, CA PB - Shoemaker Hoard, Distributed by Publishers Group West KW - Fear KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Miedo KW - Historia KW - Aspectos sociales KW - Aspectos psicológicos N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006012039.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0712/2006012039-d.html ER -