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INSANITY AND THE LUNATIC ASYLUM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

PERSPECTIVES IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY

TITLES IN THIS SERIES

1 Migrants and Urban Change: Newcomers to Antwerp, 17601860

Anne Winter

2 Female Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Galina Ulianova

3 Barriers to Competition: The Evolution of the Debate

Ana Rosado Cubero

4 Rural Unwed Mothers: An American Experience, 18701950

Mazie Hough

5 English Catholics and the Education of the Poor, 18471902

Eric G. Tenbus

6 The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 15501610

Florike Egmond

7 The Determinants of Entrepreneurship: Leadership, Culture, Institutions

Jos L. Garca-Ruiz and Pier Angelo Toninelli (eds)

8 London Clerical Workers, 18801914: Development of the Labour Market

Michael Heller

9 The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Change

Jim Tomlinson, Carlo Morelli and Valerie Wright

10 Mining and the State in Brazilian Development

Gail D. Triner

11 Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants

Tijl Vanneste

12 The Clothing Trade in Provincial England, 18001850

Alison Toplis

13 Sex in Japans Globalization, 18701930: Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation Building

Bill Mihalopoulos

14 Financing Indias Imperial Railways, 18751914

Stuart Sweeney

15 Energy, Trade and Finance in Asia: A Political and Economic Analysis

Justin Dargin and Tai Wei Lim

16 Violence and Racism in Football: Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 19681998

Brett Bebber

17 The Economies of Latin America: New Cliometric Data

Csar Yez and Albert Carreras (eds)

18 Meat, Commerce and the City: The London Food Market, 18001855

Robyn S. Metcalfe

19 Merchant Colonies in the Early Modern Period

Victor N. Zakharov, Gelina Harlaftis and Olga Katsiardi-Hering (eds)

20 Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe

Victoria N. Bateman

21 Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America: The Development of Social Insurance

Bernard Harris (ed.)

22 Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World

Beatrice Moring (ed.)

23 Crime and Community in Reformation Scotland: Negotiating Power in a Burgh Society

J. R. D. Falconer

24 Policing Prostitution, 18561886: Deviance, Surveillance and Morality

Catherine Lee

25 Narratives of Drunkenness: Belgium, 18301914

An Vleugels

26 Respectability and the London Poor, 17801870: The Value of Virtue

Lynn MacKay

27 Residential Institutions in Britain, 17251970: Inmates and Environments

Jane Hamlett, Lesley Hoskins and Rebecca Preston (eds)

28 Conflict, Commerce and Franco-Scottish Relations, 15601713

Siobhan Talbott

29 Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Susanne Schmid and Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp (eds)

30 Merchants and Profit in the Age of Commerce, 16801830

Pierre Gervais, Yannick Lemarchand and Dominique Margairaz (eds)

31 Jewish Immigrants in London, 18801939

Susan L. Tananbaum

32 Commercial Networks and European Cities, 14001800

Andrea Caracausi and Christof Jeggle (eds)

33 A Global Conceptual History of Asia, 18601940

Hagen Schulz-Forberg (ed.)

34 Consuls and the Institutions of Global Capitalism, 17831914

Ferry de Goey

35 Merchant Communities in Asia, 16001980

Lin Yu-ju and Madeleine Zelin

FORTHCOMING TITLES

Philanthropy and the Funding of the Church of England, 18561914

Sarah Flew

Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century: The Golden Age of Antwerp

Jeroen Puttevils

Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports

Marion Pluskota

Development Economics in the Twenty-First Century

Davide Gualerzi and Claudia Sunna (eds)

Early Modern Trading Networks in Europe: Cooperation and the Case of Simon Ruiz

Ana Sofia Ribeiro

Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa: The Case of the Gold Coast

Klas Rnnbck

A History of Drink and the English, 15002000

Paul Jennings

Franco Modigliani and Keynesian Economics: Theory, Facts and Policy

Antonella Rancan

Rural-Urban Relationships in the Nineteenth Century: Uneasy Neighbours?

Mary Hammond and Barry Sloan (eds)

INSANITY AND THE LUNATIC ASYLUM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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Thomas Knowles and Serena Trowbridge

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The editors would like to thank the staff at Pickering & Chatto for their support and patience throughout the process and production of this book. We are also extremely grateful to our contributors who have worked enthusiastically with us from the initial conference through to the final stages of the book. We would also like to thank Sophie Clarke, Jessica Smith and Vanessa Stanfield for their interest in and help with the final stages of editing and proof-reading.

Elaine Bailey completed her doctorate in English Literature at the University of Ottawa and has taught at Queens University in Kingston, the Royal Military College of Canada, and the University of Ottawa. Dr. Bailey is a member of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, the British Association for Romantic Studies, and the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. Her publications focus on Romantic women writers and on the tradition of the biographical dictionary, specifically of Female Worthies and other gynocentric texts in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is currently writing a biography on the poet and painter Matilda Betham.