Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings
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Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings
Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Fischer-Tine, Harald
Springer International Publishing AG
02/2017
404
Dura
Inglês
9783319451350
15 a 20 dias
This book 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.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Emires and Emotions; Harald Fischer-Tine 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-Tine.- 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 Bruckenhaus.- 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. Schar.- 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 Hoelzl.- 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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This book 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.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Emires and Emotions; Harald Fischer-Tine 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-Tine.- 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 Bruckenhaus.- 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. Schar.- 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 Hoelzl.- 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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