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Bedlam at Botany Bay (Paperback)
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Bedlam at Botany Bay (Paperback)
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What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New
South Wales? In this important new history of the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries, we find out through the
correspondence of tireless colonial secretaries, the brazen
language of lawyers and judges and firebrand politicians, and
heartbreaking letters from siblings, parents and friends. We also
hear from the mad themselves. Class, gender and race became
irrelevant as illness, chaos and delusion afflicted convicts exiled
from their homes and living under the weight of imperial justice;
ex-convicts and small settlers as they grappled with the country
they had taken from its Indigenous inhabitants, as well as
officers, officials and wealthy colonists who sought to guide the
course of European history in Australia. This not a history of the
miserable institutions built for the mentally ill, or those living
within them, or the people in charge of the asylums. These stories
of madness are woven together into a narrative about freedom and
possibilities, and collapse and unravelling. The book looks at
people at the edge of the world finding themselves at the edge of
sanity, and is about their strategies for survival. This is a new
story of colonial Australia, cast as neither a grim and fatal shore
nor an antipodean paradise, but a place where the full range of
humanity wrestled with the challenges of colonisation. The first
book-length history of madness at the beginning ofEuropean
Australia Original and evocative, it grapples seriously with the
place ofmadness in Australia's convict history The book's intimate
descriptions of madness and the response to itgive a unique picture
of life in the early colony through the lens ofmental illness
Awareness of mental health continues to rise globally. This
bookexplores efforts to understand and to treat madness before
asylums,hospitals and doctors made madness a medical problem.
Meticulously researched by James Dunk, a young emerginghistorian of
medicine and colonialism
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