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.