Fear in the German Speaking World, 1600-2000

Introduction: Thomas Kehoe & Michael Pickering, (University of New England, Australia and University of Melbourne, Australia)
1. Political Fear during the Wars of Louis XIV: The Danger of Becoming French, Kirsten L. Cooper, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
2. Vampires, Ottomans, and the Spectre of Contagion: The Intersectionality of Fear on the Periphery of the Habsburg Monarchy, Michael Pickering (University of Melbourne, Australia)
3. "The forest is not everyone's friend:" Fear in an 18th century Southwest German Hometown, Dennis Frey, (Lasell College, USA)
4. Gypsy Hysteria in 19th Century Germany: A Biopolitical Response, Charissa Kurda, (Flinders University, Australia)
5. Conceptualizing Gender and Fear: German-Jewish Masculinities in the Third Reich and the Dread of the Unknown, Sebastian Huebel, (University of British Columbia, Canada)
6. Cultivating Fear: The Image of SA and the Presence of Propaganda in the Late Weimar, Jacob Berg & Richard Scully, (University of St. Andrews, UK and University of New England, Australia)
7. Gangs in the Forest: The Construction of the Criminal Archetype in Post-World War II Germany, Thomas Kehoe (University of New England, Australia)
8. German Angst After 1945 as Fear of the Fear, Pierre-Frédéric Weber, (University of Szczecin, Poland)
9. Fear of Falling: Talking about (and Being Afraid of) Poverty in Germany since 1945, Christoph Lorke, (University of Münster, Germany)
Conclusions: Michael Pickering & Thomas Kehoe (University of New England, Australia and University of Melbourne, Australia)

Thomas Kehoe is a Research Fellow at the University of New England, Australia. A historian with a focus on Germany and the United States, he has published in journals such as Genocide Research, War in History and Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Michael Pickering is a Lecturer in History at Trinity College, University of Melbourne, Australia.