{"product_id":"insanity-identity-and-empire-immigrants-and-institutional-confinement-in-australia-and-new-zealand-18731910-studies-in-imperialism-129-9780719087240","title":"Insanity Identity and Empire Immigrants and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Cathy Coleborne has written a splendid book, one that is especially welcome for its comparative focus, and for its efforts to give us a sense of mental patients' lives in two colonial societies. This is a meticulously researched monograph that is crisply written and full of wonderful details, the whole forming a splendid addition to the burgeoning literature on the history of colonial psychiatry.'\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Scull, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Coleborne [has] added important dimensions to the history of insanity in Australia and New Zealand, but even more significant is the depth of insight these works offer historians of immigration. They deserve a wide readership.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Garton, University of Sydney, Australian Historical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e47, no. 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Historians are yet to explore the discursive stretch of madness throughout the British Empire, writes Coleborne. This expansive monograph, bringing together scholarly fields to examine madness thematically at two settler sites of empire, is an important step towards this.’\u003cbr\u003eJames Dunk, University of Sydney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Insanity, Identity and Empire \u003c\/i\u003edraws on and extends Coleborne’s previously published works about institutional confinement.’ \u003cbr\u003eAnn Westmore, University of Melbourne , Health and History 18\/2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The book adds to a growing body of historical literature on disability and madness and, in particular, research on migration, disability, and madness.’\u003cbr\u003eNatalie Spagnuolo, York University, Toronto, H-Disability (January 2018)\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Insanity, identity and empire\u003cbr\u003e1. Insanity in the ‘age of mobility’: Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s–80s\u003cbr\u003e2. Immigrants, mental health and social institutions: Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s–90s\u003cbr\u003e3. Passing through: narrating patient identities in the colonial hospitals for the insane, 1873–1910\u003cbr\u003e4. White men and weak masculinity: men in the public asylums, 1860s–1900s\u003cbr\u003e5. Insanity and white femininity: women in the public asylums, 1860s–1900s\u003cbr\u003e6. The ‘Others’: inscribing difference in colonial institutional settings\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037337747799,"sku":"9780719087240","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719087240.jpg?v=1750935349","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/insanity-identity-and-empire-immigrants-and-institutional-confinement-in-australia-and-new-zealand-18731910-studies-in-imperialism-129-9780719087240","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}