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1 Introduction -- The Rise of the Private Madhouse -- 2 Houses for the Distracted, 1600-1700 -- 3 Madhouses in the Market-Place, 1701-1774 -- 4 An Expanding Madhouse Network, 1775-1815 -- 5 Madhouse Patients -- 6 Madhouse Entrepreneurs -- 7 Therapeutics of the Madhouse -- 8 Conditions and Controversy -- 9 Conclusion -- Insanity and Enterprise -- .

Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War.

France had the second largest empire in the world after Britain, but one with very different origins and purposes. Over more than four centuries, the French empire explained itself in many different ways through many different colonial regimes. Beginning in the early modern period, a vast mercantile empire based on furs and fish in the New World and sugar cultivated by the enslaved in the Caribbean rose and fell. At intervals thereafter, the French seemed to have an empire simply as an attribute of a Great Power, generally in competition with Britain. Relatively few French people ever moved to the empire, even to the settler colony of Algeria. Under the Third Republic, the French construed a ́€œcivilizing missioń€ melding selectively applied principles of democracy and colonial capitalism. Two world wars and two anticolonial wars broke French imperial power as it had previously existed, yet numberless traces of the French empire lived on, both in the former colonies and in today's French Republic. This narrative history recounts the unique course of the French empire, questioning how it made sense to the people who ruled it, lived under it, and fought against it.

This book is a study of the pioneer early county asylums, which were intended to provide for the 'cure', and 'safe custody' of people suffering from the ravages of insanity. It considers the origins of the asylums, how they were managed, the people who staffed them, their treatment practices, and the experiences of the people who were incarcerated. 'Community care' in the late twentieth century has led us to abandon the network of nineteenth century lunatic asylums. This book reminds us of the ideals that lay behind them. The book contains extensive material regarding particular cities/countie

In peacemaking in the former Ottoman Empire, a discrepancy developed between the discursive power of the Paris Peace Conference to make treaties, and the material power to determine the situation on the ground. In the Arabic-speaking lands, the Great Powers papered over this situation with League of Nations Mandates. These raised as many questions as they answered. In Anatolia, Mustafa Kemal's emerging ethno-nationalist state sharply demarcated the power of the Allies to make peace. Yet the discursive power of the Conference did not entirely disappear, as post-Ottoman Turkey sought to join the new international system on terms it considered acceptable.