In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new insights into a

The asylum--at once a place of refuge, incarceration, and abuse--touched the lives of many Americans living between 1830 and 1950. What began as a few scattered

This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published so

Suva Stories explores a fascinating tapestry of histories in one of the Pacific’s oldest and most culturally diverse urban centres, the capital of Fiji. Chart

The first monograph on the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its Empire from 1800 to 1914.