Callan Park : hospital for the insane / Sarah Luke.
Callan Park : hospital for the insane / Sarah Luke.
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Publisher
North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly, 2018.
North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2018.
Date
2018.
Call Numbers
362.21099/6 , H 2018/3330 , G 2019/4180
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical content
xviii, 253 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Publication information
Publisher
North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly, 2018.
North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2018.
Place of Publication
Victoria
Date Published
2018.
2018.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Australian
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Tales of Victorian-era madness have imbued twenty-first century minds with images of inconvenient husbands and wives, locked up in attics or diseased madhouses in the English countryside, without hope of real care or release. But what was the reality faced by the 'insane' in nineteenth-century New South Wales? In 1874 Sir Henry Parkes purchased the...
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Callan Park : hospital for the insane / Sarah Luke.
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Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-246) and index.
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©2018.
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Call Numbers
362.21099/6 , H 2018/3330 , G 2019/4180
Record Identifier
74VKV8qRxEgl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8qRxEgl
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ISBN
9781925588965 paperback
DDC
362.21099441
MMS ID
991024187115502626
