Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa by Richard C. Keller

Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa

Richard C. Keller

320 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative medium-paced
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Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to be realms of savage violence, lurid sexuality, and primitive madness. Colonial Madness traces the genealogy and development of this idea from the beginning...

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