Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings - Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Release date:	February 2017
First published:	2016
Editors:	Harald Fischer-Tine
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	404
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-45135-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	3-319-45135-9
Barcode:	9783319451350

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