Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Harald Fischer-Tiné

Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
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Harald Fischer-Tiné

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Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Harald Fischer-Tiné with Daniel Brückenhaus, Norman Etherington, Dane Kennedy, Vincent Houben, Bernhard C. Schär, Robert Peckham, David Arnold, Kama Maclean, Richard Hölzl, Christine Whyte, Will Jackson, Gajendra Singh

404 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

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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 v...