Fear

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"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."--Jacket.

subjects: Social aspects of Terror,  Social aspects,  Terror,  Fear,  Social aspects of Fear,  History,  Social history, 20th century,  History, modern, 20th century,  Fear--history,  Fear--social aspects--history,  Bf575.f2 b68 2006,  152.4