Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings

Harald Fischer-Tiné is Professor of Modern Global History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zürich), Switzerland. Previous to his appointment in Zurich he taught at Jacobs University, Bremen, Humboldt-University, Berlin and the University of Heidelberg. He has published extensively on South Asian colonial history, the history of the British Empire and global history. His most recent monograph is the biography of an Indian revolutionary in European exile: Shyamji Krishnavarma: Sanskrit, Sociology and Anti-Imperialism (2014)

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Emires and Emotions; Harald Fischer-Tiné and Christine Whyte.- Part I: The Health of Body and Mind.- Chapter 2: Minds in Crisis: Medico-Moral Theories of Disorder in the Late Colonial World; Dane Kennedy.- Chapter 3. The Poison Panics of British India; David Arnold.- Chapter 4. The Settler’s Demise: Decolonization and Mental Breakdown in 1950s Kenya; Will Jackson.- Part II: Imperial Panics and Discursive Responses.- Chapter 5. Mass-Mediated Panic in the British Empire? Shyamji Krishnavarma’s ‘Scientific Terrorism’ and the ‘London Outrage’, 1909; Harald Fischer-Tiné.- Chapter 6. The Art of Panicking Quietly: British Expatriate Responses to ‘Terrorist Outrages’ in India, 1912-33; Kama Maclean.- Chapter 7. Mirrors of Violence: Inter-Racial Sex, Colonial Anxieties and Disciplining the Body of the Indian Soldier during the First World War; Gajendra Singh.- Part III: Practical and Institutional Counter-Measures.- Chapter 8. Colonial Panics Big and Small in the British Empire (1865-1907); Norman Etherington.- 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; Daniel Brückenhaus.- Chapter 10. Repertoires of European Panic and Indigenous Recaptures in Late Colonial Indonesia; Vincent Houben.- Chapter 11. ‘The Swiss of all People!’ Politics of Embarrassment and Dutch Imperialism around 1900; Bernhard C. Schär.- Part IV ‘Knowledge’ and ‘Ignorance’.- Chapter 12. Arrested Circulation. Catholic Missionaries, Anthropological Knowledge and the Politics of Cultural Difference in Imperial Germany, 1880-1914; Richard Hölzl.- Chapter 13. ‘The strangest problem’: Daniel Wilberforce, Human Leopards panic and the Special Court in Sierra Leone; Christine Whyte.- Chapter 14. Critical Mass: Colonial Crowds and Contagious Panics in 1890s Hong Kong and Bombay; Robert Peckham.- Notes on Contributors