Facing fear : the history of an emotion in global perspective / edited by Michael Laffan and Max Weiss.

Princeton ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2012.

x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction: Fear and Its Opposites in the History of Emotions / Max Weiss -- Fear of the Thirty Years War / David Lederer -- Conceptions of Terror in the European Enlightenment / Ronald Schechter -- "When Fear rather than Reason Dominates" : Priests behind the Lines in the Tupac Amaru Rebellion (1780-83) / Charles Walker -- Fear in Colonial California and within the Borderlands / Lisbeth Haas -- Weimar Cinema between Hypnosis and Enlightenment / Andreas Killen -- Italian Fascism's Wartime Enemy and the Politics of Fear / Marla Stone -- The Persecuted Body : Evangelical Internationalism, Islam, and the Politics of Fear / Melani McAlister -- Danger, Media, and the Urban Experience in Delhi / Ravi Sundaram -- Fear of the Past : Post-Soviet Culture and the Soviet Terror / Alexander Etkind -- White Hajjis : Dutch Islamophobias Past and Present / Michael Laffan.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-264) and index.