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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...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong [China] :
Hong Kong University Press,
[2015]
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Table des matières:
- Introduction : panic : reading the signs / Robert Peckham
- Empire and the place of panic / Alan Lester
- Slow burn in China : factories, fear, and fire in Canton / John M. Carroll
- Epidemic opportunities : panic, quarantines, and the 1851 International Sanitary Conference / João Rangel de Almeida
- Health panics, migration, and ecological exchange in the aftermath of the 1857 Uprising : India, New Zealand, and Australia / James Beattie
- Disease, rumor, and panic in India's plague and influenza epidemics, 1896-1919 / David Arnold
- Panic encabled : epidemics and the telegraphic world / Robert Peckham
- Don't panic! the "excited and terrified" public mind from yellow fever to bioterrorism / Amy L. Fairchild and David Merritt Johns
- Mediating panic : the iconography of "new" infectious threats, 1936-2009 / Nicholas B. King
- Epilogue : panic's past and global futures / Alison Bashford.