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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.

1. Hong Kong's floating world : disease and crime at the edge of empire / Carol C. L. Tsang -- 2. Sexual deviancies, disease, and crime in Cesare Lombroso and the "Italian school" of criminal anthropology / Chiara Beccalossi -- 3. Pathological properties : scenes of crime, sites of infection / Robert Peckham -- 4. Morality plays : presentations of criminality and disease in Nazi ghettos and concentration camps / Michael Berkowitz -- 5. The "bad" and lthe "sick" : medicalizing deviance in China / BØrge Bakken -- 6. Contagious wilderness : avian flu and suburban riots in the French media / Frederic Keck -- 7. The criminalization of industrial disease : epidemiology in a Japanese asbestos lawsuit / Paul Jobin -- 8. Crime between history and natural history / Mark Seltzer.

Chapter 1. Combating nuisance: sanitation, regulation, and the politics of property in colonial Hong Kong / Cecilia Chu -- chapter 2. "Tropicalizing" planning: sanitation, housing, and technologies of improvement in colonial Singapore, 1907-1942 / Jiat-Hwee Chang