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Informationen zum Autor Will Jackson is Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of Leeds Klappentext Kenya Colony, for the British at least, has customarily been imagined as a place of wealthy settler-farmers, expansive panoramas and the adventure of safari. Yet for the majority of Europeans who went there life was very different. Based on over two hundred and fifty psychiatric case files, this book offers an unprecedented new account of the social history of reputedly Britain's most picturesque overseas colony. While Kenya's romantic reputation has served to perpetuate the idea that Europeans enjoyed untroubled command, this volume illustrates powerful stories of conflict, immiseration, estrangement and despair. Europeans who became impoverished in Kenya or who transgressed the boundary lines separating coloniser from colonised subverted the myth that Europeans enjoyed a natural right to rule. Any deviation from the settler ideal was politically problematic, and Europeans who failed to conform to the collective self-image were absented, from the colony itself in the first instance and latterly from both popular and scholarly historical accounts. This book brings into view the hardships of Kenya's white insane and makes for an imaginative and intellectual engagement with realms of human history that were previously suppressed by colonial ideologies. By tracing the pathways that led an individual to the hospital gates, it shows the complex interplay between madness and marginality in a society for which deviance was never intended to be managed but comprehensively denied. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's introductionIntroduction 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...
