Will Jackson 
Madness and marginality [PDF ebook] 
The lives of Kenya’s White insane

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Based on over two hundred and fifty psychiatric case files, this book offers a radical new departure from existing historical accounts of what is still commonly thought of as the most picturesque of Britain’s colonies overseas. By tracing the life histories of Kenya’s ‘white insane’, the book allows for a new account of settler society: one that moves attention away from the ‘great white hunters’ and heroic pioneer farmers to all those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, it raises important new questions around deviance, transgression and social control. Sitting at the intersection of a number of fields, the book will appeal to students and teachers of imperial history, colonial medicine, African history and postcolonial theory and will prove a valuable addition to both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

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General Editor’s introduction
Introduction
1. Approaching madness: deviant psychology in Kenya Colony
2. No ordinary chaps: class, gender and the licensing of transgression
3. The lives of Kenya’s white insane
4. Battered wives and broken homes: the colonial family
5. Stigma, shame and scandal: sex and mental illness
6. States of emergency: psychosis and transgression
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

Sobre o autor

Will Jackson is Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of Leeds

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Língua Inglês ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 224 ● ISBN 9781526118073 ● Tamanho do arquivo 4.1 MB ● Editora Manchester University Press ● Cidade Manchester ● País GB ● Publicado 2017 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 7635955 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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