Bedlam at Botany Bay /

What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we find out through the correspondence of tireless colonial secretaries, the brazen language of lawyers and judges and firebrand politic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dunk, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney NSW : New South, 2019.
Temas:
1788-1851
Penal colonies > Australia > New South Wales.
Colonies pénitentiaires > Australie > Nouvelle-Galles du Sud.
HISTORY > Australia & New Zealand.
Penal colonies
Politics and government
Social conditions
Australia > History > 1788-1851.
New South Wales > Politics and government > History.
New South Wales > Social conditions > History.
New South Wales > Social conditions.
Australie > Histoire > 1788-1851.
Nouvelle-Galles du Sud > Conditions sociales.
Australia
New South Wales
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. There Is A Wildness; 2. The Liabilities of The Sea; 3. Madness and Malingering; 4. The 'Lunatic Asylum' At Castle Hill; 5. The Politics of A Penal Colony; 6. Darling's Suicides; 7. After The Rebellion; 8. Wrongful Confinement and Irresponsible Power; Epilogue; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

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