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Empires of Panic : Epidemics and Colonial Anxieties.
Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings-from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic in relation to colonial...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press, HKU,
2015.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Panic: Reading the Signs; 1. Empire and the Place of Panic; 2. Slow Burn in China: Factories, Fear, and Fire in Canton; 3. Epidemic Opportunities: Panic, Quarantines, and the 1851 International Sanitary Conference; 4. Health Panics, Migration, and Ecological Exchange in the Aftermath of the 1857 Uprising: India, New Zealand, and Australia; 5. Disease, Rumor, and Panic in India's Plague and Influenza Epidemics, 1896-1919; 6. Panic Encabled: Epidemics and the Telegraphic World.
- 7. Don't Panic! The "Excited and Terrified" Public Mind from Yellow Fever to Bioterrorism8. Mediating Panic: The Iconography of "New" Infectious Threats, 1936-2009; Epilogue: Panic's Past and Global Futures; Bibliography; Index.