Fear

An Alternative History of the World

AvRobert Peckham

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Engelska, 2023

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''Extraordinary'' Ai Weiwei''Brilliant'' Simon SchamaFear 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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Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-07
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781782838135
Förlag:Profile Books Ltd

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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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In this remarkable study, Peckham explores how fear has been used to both assert and challenge authority during the last 700 years ... Peckham's brilliant survey of fear is both erudite and wide-ranging ... In a modern world characterised by 'illiberal democracy and authoritarian populism', this important book offers much-needed insight, including a nuanced vision of fear that 'sees grounds for hope, not despair, in uncertainty'.