@HistorianHelen @jesslcotton Harald Fischer-Tiné's edited volume on 'Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings' is very good and full of interesting chapters. https://t.co/bA21a3zijr
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@profdanhicks I wrote a chapter about the human leopards special court, as response to the anti-colonial insurgency -- https://t.co/oc3iULBkve if you don't have e-access I can email you the text.
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@KimAtiWagner knows a lot more about this than me! But Thugs even made a brief appearance in the colonial records of 1910s Sierra Leone, as British colonial officers looked back 80 years into the archives to find some advice about policing. See C.13 here:
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@urbanhist Speaking to all of those themes, there's Robert Peckham's 'Critical Mass: Colonial Crowds and Contagious Panics in 1890s Hong Kong and Bombay' in the volume 'Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings.' https://t.co/ScNRAy2SFI