Anxieties, fear and panic in colonial settings : empires on the verge of a nervous breakdown /: empires on the verge of a nervous breakdown. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Harald Fischer-Tiné, editor.
• Editors: Fischer-Tiné, Harald
• Contents: Introduction: empires and emotions / Harald Fischer-Tiné and Christine Whyte -- Minds in crisis: medico-moral theories of disorder in the late colonial world / Dane Kennedy -- The poison panics of British India / David Arnold -- The settler's demise: decolonization and mental breakdown in 1950s Kenya / Will Jackson -- Mass-mediated panic in the British empire? Shyamji Krishnavarma's 'scientific terrorism' and the 'London outrage', 1909 / Harald Fischer-Tiné -- The art of panicking quietly: British expatriate responses to 'terrorist outrages' in India, 1912-33 / Kama Maclean -- Mirrors of violence: inter-racial sex, colonial anxieties and disciplining the body of the Indian soldier during the First World War / Gajendra Singh -- Colonial panics big and small in the British empire (1865-1907) / Norman Etherington -- Imperial fears and transnational policing in Europe: the 'German problem' and the British and French surveillance of anti-colonialists in exile, 1904-1939 / Daniel Brückenhaus -- Repertoires of European panic and indigenous recaptures in late colonial Indonesia / Vincent Houben -- 'The Swiss of all people!' Politics of embarrassment and Dutch imperialism around 1900 / Bernhard C. Schär -- Arrested circulation: catholic missionaries, anthropological knowledge and the politics of cultural difference in imperial Germany, 1880-1914 / Richard Hölzl -- 'The strangest problem': Daniel Wilberforce, the Human Leopards panic and the special court in Sierra Leone / Christine Whyte -- Critical mass: colonial crowds and contagious panics in 1890s Hong Kong and Bombay / Robert Peckham.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 404 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 325.32; History; Imperialism -- Social aspects; Imperialism -- History -- 19th century; Race relations -- Colonies -- Europe -- History -- 19th century; Race relations -- Political aspects -- History; HISTORY -- Civilization; HISTORY -- Essays; HISTORY -- Reference; HISTORY -- Social History; Race relations -- Political aspects; Imperialism; Imperialism -- Social aspects; History -- General; History -- Middle East -- General; Colonialism & imperialism; Social & cultural history; Asian history; History, Modern; Imperialism; Social history; History -- Modern -- General; History: earliest times to present day; Europe; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319451367; 3319451367; 3319451359; 9783319451350
• Related ISBNs: 9783319451350; 3319451359
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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