Empires of Panic [electronic resource] : Epidemics and Colonial Anxieties

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자료유형	e-Book
서명/저자사항	Empires of Panic [electronic resource]: Epidemics and Colonial Anxieties.
개인저자	Peckham, Robert.
발행사항	Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2015.
형태사항	1 online resource (255 p.).
기타형태 저록	Print version: Peckham, Robert Empires of Panic : Epidemics and Colonial Anxieties Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, HKU,c2015 9789888208449
ISBN	9789888313563 9888313568
일반주기	Description based upon print version of record.
내용주기	Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Panic: Reading the Signs; 1. Empire and the Place of Panic; 2. Slow Burn in China: Factories, Fear, and Fire in Canton; 3. Epidemic Opportunities: Panic, Quarantines, and the 1851 International Sanitary Conference; 4. Health Panics, Migration, and Ecological Exchange in the Aftermath of the 1857 Uprising: India, New Zealand, and Australia; 5. Disease, Rumor, and Panic in India's Plague and Influenza Epidemics, 1896-1919; 6. Panic Encabled: Epidemics and the Telegraphic World 7. Don't Panic! The "Excited and Terrified" Public Mind from Yellow Fever to Bioterrorism8. Mediating Panic: The Iconography of "New" Infectious Threats, 1936-2009; Epilogue: Panic's Past and Global Futures; Bibliography; Index
요약	Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings-from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic in relation to colonial anxieties, rumors, indigenous resistance, and crises, particularly in relation to epidemic disease. How did Western government agencies, policymakers, planners, and other authorities understand, deal with, and neutralize panics? What role did evolving technologies of communication play in the amplif.
일반주제명	British -- Australia -- History -- 19th century. Panic --Political aspects. Panic --Social aspects. HISTORY / General. HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General. MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine. MEDICAL / Diseases. MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine. MEDICAL / Internal Medicine. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare.
분류기호(DDC)	362.10994
언어	영어
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