| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Routledge studies in modern history ; 1
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Routledge studies in modern history ; 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Isolation and exclusion in the modern world: an introductory essay / Alison Bashford and Carolyn Strange -- Punitive isolation: geographies and subjectivities -- The disappearance of the prison: an episode in the 'civilising process' / John Pratt -- The politics of convict space: Indian penal settlements and the Andaman Islands / Clare Anderson -- Beating the system: prison music and the politics of penal space / Ethan Blue -- Segregating sexualities: the prison 'sex problem' in twentieth-century Canada and the United States / Elise Chenier -- Therapeutic and preventive isolation -- The ruly and the unruly: isolation and inclusion in the management of the insane / Mark Finnane -- From 'leper villages' to leprosaria: public health, nationalism and the culture of exclusion in Japan / Susan L. Burns -- 'Houses of deposit' and the exclusion of women in turn-of-the-century Argentina / Kristin Ruggiero -- Cultures of confinement: tuberculosis, isolation and the sanatorium / Alison Bashford -- Banishment, exile and exclusion -- Patterns of exclusion on Robben Island, 1654-1992 / Harriet Deacon -- Legal geographies of Aboriginal segregation in British Columbia: the making and unmaking of the Songhees reserve, 1850-1911 / Renisa Mawani -- Palestinian refugee camps: reinscribing and contesting memory and space / Randa Farah -- 'This is not a place for civilised people': isolation, enforced education and resistance among Spanish Gypsies / Paloma Gay y Blasco -- Epilogue / Carolyn Strange. |
| Summary |
In addition to offering new perspectives on the continuum of medico-penal sites of isolation from the asylum to the penitentiary, Isolation looks at less well-known sites, from leper villages to refugee camps to Native reserves. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social isolation -- History.
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Social isolation. |
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History. |
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Segregation -- History.
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Segregation. |
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Imprisonment -- History.
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Imprisonment. |
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Exile (Punishment) -- History.
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Exile (Punishment) |
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Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- History.
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Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention. |
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Isolation (Hospital care) -- History.
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Isolation (Hospital care) |
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Institutional care -- History.
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Institutional care. |
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Social Isolation. |
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Cross-Cultural Comparison. |
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Institutionalization -- history. |
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Prisons -- history. |
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Vulnerable Populations. |
| Indexed Term |
Multi-User: limited to 5 simultaneous users. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Strange, Carolyn, 1959-
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Bashford, Alison, 1963-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Isolation. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003 0415309808 (DLC) 2002036908 (OCoLC)50958851 |
| ISBN |
0203405226 (electronic book) |
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9780203405222 (electronic book) |
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0415309808 (alkaline paper) |
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