Anxieties, fear and panic in colonial settings : empires on the verge of a nervous breakdown /: empires on the verge of a nervous breakdown. ([2016])
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- Title:
- Anxieties, fear and panic in colonial settings : empires on the verge of a nervous breakdown /: empires on the verge of a nervous breakdown. ([2016])
- Main Title:
- Anxieties, fear and panic in colonial settings : empires on the verge of a nervous breakdown
- 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 / ChristineIntroduction: 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. … (more)
- 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
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3319451367
3319451359
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- 9783319451350
3319451359 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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