Vient de paraître Empires of panic. Epidemics and colonial anxieties sous la direction de Robert Peckham aux Hong Kong UP

Vient de paraître Empires of panic. Epidemics and colonial anxieties sous la direction de Robert Peckham, Hong Kong University Press, 2015, 256 p. ISBN : 9789888208449 Prix : 58 $.

"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 amplification of local panics into global events ? Engaging with these questions, the book challenges conventional histories to show how intensifying processes of intelligence gathering did not consolidate empire, but rather served to produce critical uncertainties — the uneven terrain of imperial panic."

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Robert Peckham is associate professor in the Department of History and co-director of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong.