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Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860-1914
Catharine S. Coleborne
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Hardcover. Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand between 1860 and 1914. Num Pages: 235 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1MB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJM; HBTQ; MBPK; MBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand between 1860 and 1914.
Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand between 1860 and 1914.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230578074
SKU
V9780230578074
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Ref
99-15
About Catharine S. Coleborne
CATHARINE COLEBORNE is Associate Professor of History at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her book Reading 'madness': Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1880, was published in 2007. She is currently part of a new team project to investigate insanity and ethnicity in colonial Australasia.
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