During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. While these bases helped the British project power

Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. In the late nineteenth century, at a time whe

Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imp

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