Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown /

Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Fischer-Tiné, Harald (Editor)
Summary:XV, 404 p. 4 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,
Subjects:
History, Modern.
Imperialism.
Civilization > History.
Social history.
Middle East > History.
Modern History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Cultural History.
Social History.
History of the Middle East.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45136-7
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Emires and Emotions; Harald Fischer-Tiné and Christine Whyte
  • Part I: The Health of Body and Mind
  • Chapter 2: Minds in Crisis: Medico-Moral Theories of Disorder in the Late Colonial World; Dane Kennedy
  • Chapter 3. The Poison Panics of British India; David Arnold
  • Chapter 4. The Settler’s Demise: Decolonization and Mental Breakdown in 1950s Kenya; Will Jackson
  • Part II: Imperial Panics and Discursive Responses
  • Chapter 5. Mass-Mediated Panic in the British Empire? Shyamji Krishnavarma’s ‘Scientific Terrorism’ and the ‘London Outrage’, 1909; Harald Fischer-Tiné
  • Chapter 6. The Art of Panicking Quietly: British Expatriate Responses to ‘Terrorist Outrages’ in India, 1912-33; Kama Maclean
  • Chapter 7. Mirrors of Violence: Inter-Racial Sex, Colonial Anxieties and Disciplining the Body of the Indian Soldier during the First World War; Gajendra Singh
  • Part III: Practical and Institutional Counter-Measures
  • Chapter 8. Colonial Panics Big and Small in the British Empire (1865-1907); Norman Etherington
  • Chapter 9. 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
  • Chapter 10. Repertoires of European Panic and Indigenous Recaptures in Late Colonial Indonesia; Vincent Houben
  • Chapter 11. ‘The Swiss of all People!’ Politics of Embarrassment and Dutch Imperialism around 1900; Bernhard C. Schär
  • Part IV ‘Knowledge’ and ‘Ignorance’
  • Chapter 12. Arrested Circulation. Catholic Missionaries, Anthropological Knowledge and the Politics of Cultural Difference in Imperial Germany, 1880-1914; Richard Hölzl
  • Chapter 13. ‘The strangest problem’: Daniel Wilberforce, Human Leopards panic and the Special Court in Sierra Leone; Christine Whyte
  • Chapter 14. Critical Mass: Colonial Crowds and Contagious Panics in 1890s Hong Kong and Bombay; Robert Peckham
  • Notes on Contributors.

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