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Author:

Coleborne, Catharine, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001083879

Title:

Insanity, identity and empire : immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910 / Catharine Coleborne.

Publisher:

Manchester University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiv, 224 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Australia--History--History--19th century.
New Zealand--History--History--19th century.
Immigrants--Australia--Psychology.
Immigrants--New Zealand--Psychology.
People with mental disabilities--History--Australia--History--19th century.
People with mental disabilities--History--New Zealand--History--19th century.
Mentally Ill Persons--history.
Commitment of Mentally Ill--history.
Mental Health Services--history.
Emigrants and Immigrants--history.
Social Discrimination--history.
Colonialism--history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Australia.
New Zealand.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants--Psychology.
People with mental disabilities--Institutional care.
Australia.
New Zealand.
1800 - 1899
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-217) and index.

Contents:

Insanity in the 'age of mobility' : Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s-1880s -- Immigrants, mental health and social institutions : Melbourne and Auckland, 1850s-1890s -- Passing through : narrating patient identities in the colonial hospitals for the insane, 1873-1910 -- White men and weak masculinity : men in the public asylums, 1860s-1900s -- Insanity and white femininity : women in the public asylums, 1860s-1900s -- The 'others' : inscribing difference in colonial institutional settings.

Series:

Studies in imperialism

ISBN:

0719087244
9780719087240

OCLC:

(OCoLC)925508157

LCCN:

2015490389

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)