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Anxieties, fear and panic in colonial settings : empires on the verge of a nervous breakdown /
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 gener...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 404 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783319451367 3319451367 3319451359 9783319451350 |