Global histories of disability, 1700-2015 : power, place and people / edited by Esmee Cleall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cleall, Esmee, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge research in disability history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--History.

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 168 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Esme Cleall is a senior lecturer in the History Department, University of Sheffield. Her first book is Missionary Discourses of Difference: negotiating difference in the British Empire, c. 1840-1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and her second Colonising Disability: impairment and otherness across Britain and its empire, c.1800-1914 (Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming 2022).

Contents:

<P><STRONG>Part 1: Power</STRONG></P><P>1.The Middle Passage, the Market, and the Plantation: Slavery-Induced Disability in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean</P><I><P>Stefanie Kennedy</P></I><P>2. 'Able', 'Dis-abled' and 'Invalid' Labourers: disability and indenture in Mauritius and Natal, c. 1840-1910'</P><I><P>Madhwi</P></I><P>3. 'The Colonial Invention of Disability. The Politics of Disability and Productivity in Kenya, 1940s-1960s', <I>Sam De Schutter</P></I><B><P>Part 2: Place</P></B><P>4. 'Policies for Disabled People in the French Colonies 1918-1962: evolutions and heterogeneity'</P><I><P>Gildas Brégain</P></I><P>5. 'Imperial Mobilities: Disability, Indigeneity, and the United States West, 1850-1920', pp. 110-128.</P><I><P>Caroline Lieffers</P></I><P>6. 'Accepting and opposing local deaf tradition. The Polish d/Deaf community after the fall of communism: 1989-2014', pp. 129-150.</P><I><P>Magdalena Zdrodowska</P></I><B><P>Part 3: Personhood </P></B><P>7.<B> </B>'Coup de Soleil

William Baillie (1789-1869) and an Eastern (mis)Adventure', pp. 151-168. </P><I><P>Iain Hutchison</P></I><P>8. "Unsightly and Unruly": The Visual and Legal Politics of Disability and Gender in the US Ugly Laws</P><I><P>Lisa Beckmann</P></I>

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 25, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Global histories of disability, 1700-2015

ISBN:

9780429323980

0429323980

9781000832259

1000832252

9781000832266

1000832260

Publisher Number:

40031541002

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.