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Insanity, identity and empire: Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910 (Studies in Imperialism) - Hardcover

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Coleborne, Catharine

 
9780719087240: Insanity, identity and empire: Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910 (Studies in Imperialism)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0719087244 ISBN 13: 9780719087240
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2015

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Based on over 3000 institutional records, Coleborne's study will have wider relevance outside of the history of medicine and psychiatry. It has a global perspective but focuses on specific destinations, and in so doing, contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration

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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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This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. It looks at insanity in the context of migration to the colonies by focusing on two urban, public hospitals for the insane in Victoria, Australia, and Auckland, New Zealand, between 1873 and 1910.

During this period, there was a significant amount of migration from Britain and other parts of the world to both destinations, as part of a widespread Anglo-settler ‘explosion’. This was also the period in which social institutional networks were developed across the colonies. These social institutions included health, medical and welfare institutions, all of which were modelled on British imperial institutional spaces and with imperial sensibilities.

Of particular interest to students and historians of colonialism, imperialism and medicine at undergraduate and postgraduate level, the book examines the creation of an institutional language of gender and race in two nineteenth-century colonial institutional sites. It will also appeal to the many historians of insanity and its institutions, given that these sites were part of an imperial network of solutions to the problem of ‘madness’ which followed Europeans to new places of settlement.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719087244
ISBN 13 
9780719087240
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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