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Insanity, Race and Colonialism: Managing Mental Disorder in the Post-Emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914

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By (author): L. Smith

Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Oct 2014
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781137028624

About L. Smith

Leonard Smith is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham UK. He has written extensively on the history of provision for the insane in the 18th and 19th centuries. His publications include 'Cure Comfort and Safe Custody': Public Lunatic Asylums in early Nineteenth-Century England (1999) and Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England 1750-1830 (2007). He has worked in mental health services since 1973.

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