Colonising disability : impairment and oherness across Britain and its Empire, c. 1800-1914 / Esme Cleall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cleall, Esme, 1983- author.

Series:

Critical perspectives on empire

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology of disability--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Sociology of disability--Great Britain--History--20th century.

People with disabilities--Great Britain--History--19th century.

People with disabilities--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 299 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its empire from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Esme Cleall explores how disability increasingly became associated with 'difference' and argues that it did so through intersecting with other categories of otherness such as race. Philanthropic, legal, literary, religious, medical, educational, eugenistic and parliamentary texts are examined to unpick representations of disability that, overtime, became pervasive with significant ramifications for disabled people. Cleall also uses multiple examples to show how disabled people navigated a wide range of experiences from 'freak shows' in Britain, to missions in India, to immigration systems in Australia, including exploring how they mobilised to resist discrimination and constitute their own identities. By assessing the intersection between disability and race, Dr Cleall opens up questions about 'normalcy' and the making of the imperial self.

Contents:

Introduction: Thinking about disability, rethinking difference

Disability and otherness in the British Empire : disablement as a discourse of difference

Saving the other at home and overseas : philanthropy, education and the state

'A fearfully and wonderfully made individual' : exhibiting bodily anomaly

Signs of humanity : language and civilisation

A deaf imaginary : disability, nationhood and belonging in the 'British world'

Immigration : racism, ableism and exclusion

The health of the nation : class, race, gender and disability in imperial Britain.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jul 2022).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108983266 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.