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Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910 by Catharine Coleborne (Head of School) at Abbey's Bookshop,
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Insanity, Identity and Empire

Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910

Catharine Coleborne (Head of School),  Andrew Thompson,  John MacKenzie ,  Rebecca Mortimer

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English
Manchester University Press
01 October 2015
Colonialism & imperialism; Migration, immigration & emigration; Social classes; Care of the mentally ill
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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. -- .
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Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   549g
ISBN:   9780719087240
ISBN 10:   0719087244
Series:   Studies in Imperialism
Pages:   240
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction: Insanity, identity and empire 1. Insanity in the ‘age of mobility’: Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s–80s 2. Immigrants, mental health and social institutions: Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s–90s 3. Passing through: narrating patient identities in the colonial hospitals for the insane, 1873–1910 4. White men and weak masculinity: men in the public asylums, 1860s–1900s 5. Insanity and white femininity: women in the public asylums, 1860s–1900s 6. The ‘Others’: inscribing difference in colonial institutional settings Conclusion Bibliography Index -- .

Catharine Coleborne is Professor of History in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, New Zealand

Reviews for Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910

'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.' Andrew Scull, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego -- .


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