Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860–1914
Author:   C. Coleborne
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9780230578074


Pages:   220
Publication Date:   18 November 2009
Format:   Hardback
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Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860–1914


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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.

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Author:   C. Coleborne
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780230578074


ISBN 10:   0230578071
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   18 November 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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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