Peter N. Stearns

American Fear (eBook, ePUB)

The Causes and Consequences of High Anxiety

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After 9/11, fear has become an increasing issue in American society. Peter Stearns explores the historical causes and contemporary consequences of the high anxiety prevelant in American culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135916459
• Artikelnr.: 38245482

Autorenporträt

Peter N. Stearns

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Establishing the Cause for Fear Excess 1. Introducing Fear 2. The
Distinctiveness of American Fear Part 2: Causes and Contexts 3. Searching
for Causes 4. The Roots of American Fear: Traditions 5. From Science
Fiction to Real Death: New Contexts for Fear Part 3: The Decisive Changes:
Redefining Fear and Risk in Life and in Media 6. Fearing Fear: A New
Socialization 7. New Approaches to Risk: Lawyers and Bicycle Helmets 8.
Self-Scaring and Advertising: The Commerce Factor Part 4: The Exhaustion of
War 9. At Your Own Risk 10. A Deluge of Crises: Foreign Fears in the Past
Century Part 5: Consequences and Remedies 11. Conclusion: The Lessons of
American Fear

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Part 1: Establishing the Cause for Fear Excess 1. Introducing Fear 2. The Distinctiveness of American Fear Part 2: Causes and Contexts 3. Searching for Causes 4. The Roots of American Fear: Traditions 5. From Science Fiction to Real Death: New Contexts for Fear Part 3: The Decisive Changes: Redefining Fear and Risk in Life and in Media 6. Fearing Fear: A New Socialization 7. New Approaches to Risk: Lawyers and Bicycle Helmets 8. Self-Scaring and Advertising: The Commerce Factor Part 4: The Exhaustion of War 9. At Your Own Risk 10. A Deluge of Crises: Foreign Fears in the Past Century Part 5: Consequences and Remedies 11. Conclusion: The Lessons of American Fear

Rezensionen

Peter N. Stearns, the pioneering historian of emotions, has written a timely book that historicizes the 9/11 climate of fear in the United States. In American Fear, Stearns argues taht "we have come, as a nation, to fear excessively," and he seeks to explain why this is so.

The Journal of American History