Facing Fear: The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective

(Princeton University Press) This book sheds light on the meaning, diversity, and dynamism of fear by exploring a range of cultural explanations for the emotion, and demonstrating how fear universally binds us to a broad spectrum of memories, stories, and states in the past. Laffan is a professor of history and Weiss is an assistant professor of history and Near Eastern studies at Princeton University.