Fear

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.

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'.