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Fear : An Alternative History of the World

Robert Peckham
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Published: September 12, 2024
ISBN: 9781788167253
448 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£12.99

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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