Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860-1914 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349367610)

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Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860-1914

$54.99

Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860-1914

$54.99
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: C. Coleborne
ISBN-10: 1349367613
ISBN-13: 9781349367610
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2009
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d
By C. Coleborne
By C. Coleborne
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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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