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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Contributors xi
6. Introduction: Panic: Reading the Signs 1
7. 1. Empire and the Place of Panic 23
8. 2. Slow Burn in China: Factories, Fear, and Fire in Canton 35
9. 3. Epidemic Opportunities: Panic, Quarantines, and the 1851 International Sanitary Conference 57
10. 4. Health Panics, Migration, and Ecological Exchange in the Aftermath of the 1857 Uprising: India, New Zealand, and Australia 87
11. 5. Disease, Rumor, and Panic in India’s Plague and Influenza Epidemics, 1896–1919 111
12. 6. Panic Encabled: Epidemics and the Telegraphic World 131
13. 7. Don’t Panic! The “Excited and Terrified” Public Mind from Yellow Fever to Bioterrorism 155
14. 8. Mediating Panic: The Iconography of “New” Infectious Threats, 1936–2009 181
15. Epilogue: Panic’s Past and Global Futures 203
16. Bibliography 209
17. Index 229