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Insanity, Identity and Empire - Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910 (Hardcover)
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Insanity, Identity and Empire - Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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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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