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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Peckham, Robert (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Panic > Political aspects.
Panic > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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