Research Catalog

Title

Madness and marginality : the lives of Kenya's white insane / Will Jackson.

Author

Jackson, Will, 1980-

Publication

Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Description

xii, 209 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Studies in imperialism

Uniform Title

• University press scholarship online.
• Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Social Control, Informal
• Colonialism
• Mentally Ill Persons
• White People
• Social Control, Informal > history
• Mental Disorders > ethnology
• History, 20th Century
• Colonialism > history
• Mentally Ill Persons > history
• White People > history
• White people > History > Kenya > 20th century
• Europeans > History > Kenya > 20th century
• Colonists > Kenya > Social conditions > 20th century
• Marginality, Social > Kenya > History > 20th century
• White People > history > Kenya
• Mentally Ill Persons > history > Kenya
• Colonialism > history > Kenya
• History, 20th Century > Kenya
• Mental Disorders > ethnology > Kenya
• Social Control, Informal > history > Kenya
• Mentally Ill Persons > Kenya > History
• Colonialism > Kenya > History
• Social Control, Informal > Kenya > History
• Kenya
• United Kingdom
• United Kingdom
• Kenya

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-205) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0719088895
• 9780719088896

OCLC

• 801926420
• SCSB-12908021

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library