Insanity, identity and empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910 - Couverture rigide

Coleborne, Catharine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719087244 ISBN 13 : 9780719087240

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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 imperatives of empire and with the varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine, historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants, military bodies and medical personnel, and 'transnational lives'. This book examines an empire-wide discourse of 'madness' as part of this inquiry.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Catharine Coleborne is Professor of History at the University of Waikato, New Zealand

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719087244
• ISBN 13: 9780719087240
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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