Share
Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and new Zealand, 1873-1910: 129 (Studies in Imperialism, 129)
Catharine Coleborne (Author)
·
Manchester University Press
· Paperback
Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and new Zealand, 1873-1910: 129 (Studies in Imperialism, 129) - Catharine Coleborne
£ 22.50
£ 25.00
You save: £ 2.50
Choose the list to add your product or create one New List
✓ Product added successfully to the Wishlist.
Go to My WishlistsIt will be shipped from our warehouse between
Monday, June 24 and
Tuesday, June 25.
You will receive it anywhere in United Kingdom between 1 and 3 business days after shipment.
Synopsis "Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and new Zealand, 1873-1910: 129 (Studies in Imperialism, 129)"
Insanity, identity and empire 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.
