Overview
- Focuses on multiple different colonial empires in order to provide a greater scope
- Sheds light on the growth of seemingly irrational anxieties about empire
- Brings together contributions from leading scholars from aroung the world
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Imperial Panics and Discursive Responses
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Practical and Institutional Counter-measures
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‘Knowledge’ and ‘Ignorance’
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About this book
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. 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. Drawing from examples of the British, Dutch and German colonial experience, the volume sketches out some of the main areas (such as disease, native ‘savagery’ or sexual transgression) that generated panics or created anxieties in colonial settings and analyses the most common varieties of practical, discursive and epistemic strategies adopted by the colonisers to curb the perceived threats.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings
Book Subtitle: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Editors: Harald Fischer-Tiné
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45136-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45135-0Published: 07 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83220-3Published: 15 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45136-7Published: 23 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 404
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Modern History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Cultural History, Social History, History of the Middle East