Fear: An Alternative History of the World

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Profile Books, 07.09.2023 - 448 Seiten

'Extraordinary' Ai Weiwei

'Brilliant' Simon Schama

Fear has long been a driving force - perhaps the driving force - of world history: a coercive tool of power and a catalyst for radical change. Here, Robert Peckham traces its transformative role over a millennium, from fears of famine and war to anxieties over God, disease, technology and financial crises.

In a landmark global history that ranges from the Black Death to the terror of the French Revolution, the AIDS pandemic to climate change, Peckham reveals how fear made us who we are, and how understanding it can equip us to face the future.

 

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Inhalt

Illustrations
11
Preface
12
Is This Fear Were Feeling?
18
The Great Pestilence
19
A New Age of Fear
Theatre of Power
Colonising Panic
Despotism of Liberty
Crash
Horror in the Trenches
Death Camps and Dictators
A Contest of Nightmares
BreakUp Breakdown
War on Terror
EcoPanic
Pandemic and the Rule of Fear

The Slave Matrix
Lost in the Crowd
Diabolus ex Machina
Acknowledgements Notes
Index
Urheberrecht

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Robert Peckham is a cultural historian and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. The founder of Open Cube, which promotes the integration of the humanities with the sciences and technology, he was previously Professor of History and M.B. Lee Endowed Professor in the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. He has held fellowships at Cambridge, Oxford, LSE and King's College London. He lives in New York.

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TitelFear: An Alternative History of the World
Autor/inRobert Peckham
VerlagProfile Books, 2023
ISBN1782838139, 9781782838135
Länge448 Seiten
  
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