History Australia, Volume 19, Issue 1 (2022)

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Bringing Madness in from the Margins: Mental Illness and Historical Change

Editorial

Editorial
From the editors
Kate Fullagar, Jessica Lake, Benjamin Mountford & Ellen Warne
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 16 Mar 2022
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Introduction

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From the margins: madness and history in Australia
Catharine Coleborne & James Dunk
Pages: 3-12
Published online: 14 Feb 2022
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Research Articles

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Solitary confinement and health and other life course outcomes for convict women
Kris Inwood & Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Pages: 13-33
Published online: 22 Feb 2022
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Wrongful confinement and the spectre of colonial despotism: a political history of madness in New South Wales, 1843
James Dunk
Pages: 34-53
Published online: 14 Feb 2022
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A town without pity? Three stories of public exposure, print media, and family histories of madness in Western Australia
Philippa Martyr
Pages: 54-72
Published online: 07 Feb 2022
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‘Jingo Dingo insanity’ and Mafeking Day: articulating madness in Federation-era Australia
Effie Karageorgos
Pages: 73-91
Published online: 07 Feb 2022
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Deinstitutionalisation and mental health activism in Australia: emerging voices of individuals with lived experience of severe mental distress, 1975–1985
Robyn Dunlop & Hans Pols
Pages: 92-114
Published online: 14 Feb 2022
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Disaster responses and Commonwealth involvement in community mental health, 1973–1975
Robyn Dunlop
Pages: 115-132
Published online: 17 Feb 2022
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Co-producing madness: international perspectives on the public histories of mental illness
Rob Ellis & Catharine Coleborne
Pages: 133-150
Published online: 08 Feb 2022
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Review Articles

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Towards a (bio)cultural history of the brain?
Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
Pages: 151-160
Published online: 07 Feb 2022
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Re-placing the lunatic asylum in the history of madness
David Wright
Pages: 161-176
Published online: 08 Feb 2022
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History off the Page Reviews

Book Review
This could be anywhere
Naomi Parry Duncan
Pages: 177-178
Published online: 07 Feb 2022
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Ice, heroes, and history in virtual reality
Thin Ice VR, directed and written by James Calvert, produced by Monkeystack and Shackleton Epic Expedition, at the South Australian Museum 20 November 2021–6 February 2022. Tickets: $16.50 adult, $13.20 concession, $11 children and SA Museum and Adelaide Film Festival members.
Alessandro Antonello
Pages: 179-180
Published online: 07 Feb 2022
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Hirini Kaa explores the history of the Māori Anglican Church
Te Hāhi Mihinare: The Māori Anglican Church, by Hirini Kaa, Wellington, Bridget Williams Books, 2020, 248 pp., $NZ49.99 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-9475-1875-2. Publisher’s website: https://www.bwb.co.nz
John Stenhouse
Pages: 181-183
Published online: 10 Feb 2022
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Matthew Bailey analyses the history of Australian shopping centres
Managing the Marketplace: Reinventing Shopping Centres in Post-war Australia, by Matthew Bailey, Abingdon, Routledge, 2021, 201 pp., $AU 252 (hbk), ISBN: 978-1-138-32302-5. Publisher’s website: https://www.routledge.com/Managing-the-Marketplace-Reinventing-Shopping-Centres-in-Post-War-Australia/Bailey/p/book/9781138323025.
Simon Ville
Pages: 184-185
Published online: 07 Feb 2022
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Cassandra Pybus explores the history of ‘terror, blood and tears’ on the frontiers of colonial Tasmania in this captivating biography
Truganini: Journey through the Apocalypse, by Cassandra Pybus, Crows Nest, Allen and Unwin, 2020, 336 pp., $AU 32.99, ISBN 978-1-7605-2922-2. Publisher’s website: https://www.allenandunwin.com/
Raymond Evans
Pages: 186-188
Published online: 10 Feb 2022
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Ian Lowe Explores Australia’s ongoing entrapment in the nuclear web
Long Half-Life: The Nuclear Industry in Australia, by Ian Lowe, Clayton, Monash University Publishing, 2021, 249 pp., $AU34.95 (pbk), ISBN: 9781922464491. Publisher’s website: https://publishing.monash.edu/
Adam Lucas
Pages: 189-191
Published online: 10 Feb 2022
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Emily O’Gorman provides a new history of rivers and wetlands
Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin, by Emily O’Gorman, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2021, 288 pp., $US30 (pbk), ISBN: 9780295749150. Publisher’s website: https://uwapress.uw.edu/
Anna Clark
Pages: 192-193
Published online: 17 Feb 2022
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Iain McIntyre on how an Australian activist strategy crossed borders
Environmental Blockades: Obstructive Direct Action and the History of the Environmental Movement, by Iain McIntyre, London and New York, Routledge, 2021, 274 pp., $AU59.19 (pbk), $AU201.60 (hbk), $AU53.59 (ebook), ISBN: 978-0-3674-8055-4. Publisher’s website: https://www.routledge.com/
Heather Goodall
Pages: 194-196
Published online: 22 Feb 2022
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The history of assisted reproduction: Making IVF possible, imaginable and acceptable
IVF and Assisted Reproduction: A Global History, by Sarah Ferber, Nicola J. Marks and Vera Mackie, Singapore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, viii + 361 pp., Hardback, €74.99, ISBN: 978-9-8115-7894-6, Publisher’s website: https://link.springer.com
Sianan Healy
Pages: 197-198
Published online: 09 Feb 2022
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Sarah W. Pinto explores how a settler city is unsettled
Places of Reconciliation: Commemorating Indigenous History in the Heart of Melbourne, by Sarah W. Pinto, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2021, 172 pp., $AU44.99 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-5228-7232-3. Publisher’s website: https://www.mup.com.au/
Richard Broome
Pages: 199-200
Published online: 22 Feb 2022
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Luke Keogh considers a transformative technology of empire
The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World, by Luke Keogh, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2020, 288 pp., $USD35 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-2267-1361-8. Publisher’s website: https://press.uchicago.edu/index.html.
Anton Sveding
Pages: 201-202
Published online: 09 Feb 2022
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Jon Piccini on Australia’s patchy human rights record
Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia, by Jon Piccini, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 209 pp., $AU41.95(pbk), ISBN: 978-1-1084-6027-9. Publisher’s website: https://www.cambridge.org/au
Julia T. Martínez
Pages: 203-204
Published online: 09 Feb 2022
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Mike Jones explores the connections to be made in museums
Artefacts, Archives and Documentation in the Relational Museum, by Mike Jones, London and New York, Routledge, 2021, 192 pp., $AU70.99(ebook), ISBN: 978-1-0030-9270-4. Publisher’s website: https://www.routledge.com/
Tim Sherratt
Pages: 205-206
Published online: 22 Feb 2022
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