Will Jackson

Madness and marginality

The lives of Kenya's White insane

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenya's 'white insane' to focus not on the 'great white hunters' and heroic pioneer farmers but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important new questions around deviance, transgression and social control.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781526106551
• ISBN-10: 1526106558
• Artikelnr.: 45607484

Autorenporträt

Will Jackson is Associate Professor of Imperial History at the University of Leeds

Inhaltsangabe

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