Bedlam at Botany Bay

ISBN-13: 9781742236179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str.

James Dunk

Opis

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 politicians, and heartbreaking letters.

Spis treści

• Introduction
• 1.There is a Wildness
• 2.The Liabilities of the Sea
• 3.Madness and Malingering
• 4.The ‘Lunatic Asylum’
• 5.The Politics of a Penal Colony
• 6.Darling’s Suicides
• 7.After the Rebellion
• 8.Wrongful Confinement and Irresponsible Power
• Conclusion