Insanity, Identity and Empire
Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910
This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having engaged with the structural imper…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78499-609-3
- EAN: 9781784996093
- Produktnummer: 27975368
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'290 KB
- Abbildungen: Illustrations, black & white
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Catharine Coleborne is Professor of History in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, New Zealand
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