Bedlam at Botany Bay / James Dunk.
Bedlam at Botany Bay / James Dunk.
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Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, UNSW Press Ltd., 2019.
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Language
English
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1 online resource (x, 306 pages)
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
There is a wildness -- The liabilities of the sea -- Madness and malingering -- The 'lunatic asylum' at Castle Hill -- The politics of a penal colony -- Darling's suicides -- After the rebellion -- Wrongful confinement and irresponsible power -- Epilogue.
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Publisher
Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, UNSW Press Ltd., 2019.
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we find out through the correspondence of tireless colonial secretaries, the brazen language of lawyers and judges and firebrand politicians, and heartbreaking letters from siblings, par...
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Bedlam at Botany Bay / James Dunk.
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Title from title screen.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Mode of access : Available online.
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74VKa3dyOZXg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa3dyOZXg
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ISBN
9781742244556 EPUB
DDC
616.8900994 362.2099441 994.441
MMS ID
991024404720202626
How to access this item
National edeposit: Onsite at State Library of New South Wales
