Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020

by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb

Book Overview

Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this trope began in responses to the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and tracks its tenacious hold through 9/11 and beyond. The result is the first book-length study to approach the global War on Terror from a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022673935X
• ISBN13: 9780226739359
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"