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Colonial Madness
Richard C. Keller
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Description for Colonial Madness
Hardcover. Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to be realms of violence, sexuality, and primitive madness. This book traces genealogy and development of this idea from beginnings of colonial expansion onwards, revealing ways in which psychiatry has been a weapon in arsenal of colonial racism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HB; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to be realms of savage violence, lurid sexuality, and primitive madness. "Colonial Madness" traces the genealogy and development of this idea from the beginnings of colonial expansion to the present, revealing the ways in which psychiatry has been at once a weapon in the arsenal of colonial racism, an innovative branch of medical science, and a mechanism for negotiating the meaning of difference for republican citizenship. Drawing from extensive archival research and fieldwork in France and North Africa, Richard C. Keller offers much more than a history of colonial ... Read more
Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to be realms of savage violence, lurid sexuality, and primitive madness. "Colonial Madness" traces the genealogy and development of this idea from the beginnings of colonial expansion to the present, revealing the ways in which psychiatry has been at once a weapon in the arsenal of colonial racism, an innovative branch of medical science, and a mechanism for negotiating the meaning of difference for republican citizenship. Drawing from extensive archival research and fieldwork in France and North Africa, Richard C. Keller offers much more than a history of colonial ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226429724
SKU
V9780226429724
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About Richard C. Keller
Richard C. Keller is assistant professor of medical history and the history of science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Reviews for Colonial Madness
"Keller's command of the relevant historiographies is impeccable. To produce Colonial Madness, the author had to read deeply in the literatures of modern France, modern medicine, psychiatry, colonial science, African medical history, the history and ethnography of the Maghreb, and postcolonial theory. Many less accomplished authors might have mastered one or two of these, but Keller has learned them all ... Read more