| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 404 pages) : illustrations |
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Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies |
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Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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| 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 |
| Summary |
This title argues that the history of colonial empires has been shaped to a considerable extent by negative emotions such as anxiety, fear and embarrassment as well as by the regular occurrence of panics. The case studies it assembles examine the various ways in which panics and anxieties were generated in imperial situations and how they shook up the dynamics between seemingly all-powerful colonizers and the apparently defenceless colonized |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Imperialism -- Social aspects
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Imperialism -- History -- 19th century
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Race relations -- Europe -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
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Race relations -- Political aspects -- History
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Colonialism & imperialism.
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Social & cultural history.
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Asian history.
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History: earliest times to present day.
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HISTORY -- Civilization.
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HISTORY -- Essays.
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HISTORY -- Reference.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Race relations -- Political aspects.
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Imperialism.
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Imperialism -- Social aspects.
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Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fischer-Tiné, Harald, editor
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| ISBN |
9783319451367 |
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3319451367 |
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3319451359 |
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9783319451350 |
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