Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings

Chapter 1 Introduction: Empires and Emotions

Chapter 2 Minds in Crisis: Medico-moral Theories of Disorder in the Late Colonial World

Chapter 3 The Poison Panics of British India

Chapter 4 The Settler’s Demise: Decolonization and Mental Breakdown in 1950s Kenya

Chapter 5 Mass-Mediated Panic in the British Empire? Shyamji Krishnavarma’s ‘Scientific Terrorism’ and the ‘London Outrage’, 1909

Chapter 6 The Art of Panicking Quietly: British Expatriate Responses to ‘Terrorist Outrages’ in India, 1912–33

Chapter 7 Mirrors of Violence: Inter-racial Sex, Colonial Anxieties and Disciplining the Body of the Indian Soldier During the First World War

Chapter 8 Colonial Panics Big and Small in the British Empire (1865–1907)

Chapter 9 Imperial Fears and Transnational Policing in Europe: The ‘German Problem’ and the British and French Surveillance of Anti-colonialists in Exile, 1904–1939

Chapter 10 Repertoires of European Panic and Indigenous Recaptures in Late Colonial Indonesia

Chapter 11 ‘The Swiss of All People!’ Politics of Embarrassment and Dutch Imperialism around 1900

Chapter 12 Arrested Circulation: Catholic Missionaries, Anthropological Knowledge and the Politics of Cultural Difference in Imperial Germany, 1880–1914

Chapter 13 ‘The Strangest Problem’: Daniel Wilberforce, the Human Leopards Panic and the Special Court in Sierra Leone

Chapter 14 Critical Mass: Colonial Crowds and Contagious Panics in 1890s Hong Kong and Bombay