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Empires of panic:epidemics and colonial anxieties
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- 作者： edited by Robert Peckham
- 出版社： Hong Kong University Press
- 出版年：2015
- ISBN：9789888208449
- EISBN：9789888313563 EPUB
- 格式：PDF,JPG
- 頁數：256
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 amplification of local panics into global events? Engaging with these questions, the book challenges conventional histories to show how intensifying processes of intelligence gathering did not consolidate empire, but rather served to produce critical uncertainties—the uneven terrain of imperial panic.
- List of Illustrations(第vii頁)
- Acknowledgments(第ix頁)
- List of Contributors(第xi頁)
- Introduction: Panic: Reading the Signs(第1頁)
- 1. Empire and the Place of Panic(第23頁)
- 2. Slow Burn in China: Factories, Fear, and Fire in Canton(第35頁)
- 3. Epidemic Opportunities: Panic, Quarantines, and the 1851 International Sanitary Conference(第57頁)
- 4. Health Panics, Migration, and Ecological Exchange in the Aftermath of the 1857 Uprising: India, New Zealand, and Australia(第87頁)
- 5. Disease, Rumor, and Panic in India’s Plague and Influenza Epidemics, 1896–1919(第111頁)
- 6. Panic Encabled: Epidemics and the Telegraphic World(第131頁)
- 7. Don’t Panic! The “Excited and Terrified” Public Mind from Yellow Fever to Bioterrorism(第155頁)
- 8. Mediating Panic: The Iconography of “New” Infectious Threats, 1936–2009(第181頁)
- Epilogue: Panic’s Past and Global Futures(第203頁)
- Bibliography(第209頁)
- Index(第229頁)
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