FearExtraordinary Ai Weiwei Brilliant Simon Schama Fear has long been a driving forceperhaps the driving forceof 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