Empires of Panic Epidemics and Colonial Anxieties /
Peckham, Robert.
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 anxieties, rumors, indigenous resistance, and crises, particularly in relation to epidemic disease. How did Western government agencies, policymakers, planners, and other authorities understand, deal with, and neutralize panics? What role did evolving technologies of communication play in the amplif
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Contents; 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
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 anxieties, rumors, indigenous resistance, and crises, particularly in relation to epidemic disease. How did Western government agencies, policymakers, planners, and other authorities understand, deal with, and neutralize panics? What role did evolving technologies of communication play in the amplif
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index.
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