TY - BOOK ID - 14641784 TI - Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings : Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown PY - 2016 SN - 3319451367 3319451359 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Imperialism KW - Social aspects. KW - Colonialism KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Political science KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism KW - History, Modern. KW - Imperialism. KW - Civilization-History. KW - Social history. KW - Middle East-History. KW - Modern History. KW - Imperialism and Colonialism. KW - Cultural History. KW - Social History. KW - History of the Middle East. KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social conditions KW - Social history KW - History KW - Sociology KW - Modern history KW - World history, Modern KW - World history KW - Civilization—History. KW - Middle East—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14641784 AB - 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. . ER -