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This book offers a global angle to Disability History by exploring global locations as disparate as the Caribbean, Kenya, Mauritius, Natal and Poland as well as taking new approaches to Britain and the US.
List of contents
Part 1: Power
1.The Middle Passage, the Market, and the Plantation: Slavery-Induced Disability in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
2. 'Able’, ‘Dis-abled’ and ‘Invalid’ Labourers: disability and indenture in Mauritius and Natal, c. 1840-1910’
Madhwi
3. ‘The Colonial Invention of Disability. The Politics of Disability and Productivity in Kenya, 1940s-1960s’, Sam De Schutter
Part 2: Place
4. ‘Policies for Disabled People in the French Colonies 1918-1962: evolutions and heterogeneity’
Gildas Brégain
5. ‘Imperial Mobilities: Disability, Indigeneity, and the United States West, 1850-1920’, pp. 110-128.
Caroline Lieffers
6. ‘Accepting and opposing local deaf tradition. The Polish d/Deaf community after the fall of communism: 1989–2014’, pp. 129-150.
Magdalena Zdrodowska
Part 3: Personhood
7. 'Coup de Soleil - William Baillie (1789-1869) and an Eastern (mis)Adventure', pp. 151-168.
Iain Hutchison
8. "Unsightly and Unruly": The Visual and Legal Politics of Disability and Gender in the US Ugly Laws
Lisa Beckmann
About the author
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).
Summary
This book offers a global angle to Disability History by exploring global locations as disparate as the Caribbean, Kenya, Mauritius, Natal and Poland as well as taking new approaches to Britain and the US.
