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Homeless Wanderers
Movement and mental illness in the Cape Colony in the nineteenth century
S Swartz
Set against the background of the lunatic asylums of the British Empire, with a focus on men and women identi ed as insane in the Cape Colony during the period 1890–1910, Homeless Wanderers describes the paradox between their incarceration and their roving. Its major theme is the movement of the insane in search of care: in and out of jails, asylums and families; in and out of the colony by land or sea; and their journeys by ship, cart, train or horse. It also tracks a variety of restrictions on their movement, in the form of jail cells and lunatic asylum wards, legislation, regulation and surveillance. Using the archives of the British Colonial O ce, the administrative and patient records of lunatic asylums, the scienti c publications of doctors, correspondence about lunacy and public health legislation, documents from resident magistrates and district surgeons, census reports and court records, as well as personal accounts and biographies, the author has drawn a richly evocative portrait of the insane and their treatment during a time of rapid social change, migration and war, which in itself gave rise to questions of identity and belonging, emotional tumult and many moments of madness.
Reb and the Rebel, The
Jewish Narratives in South Africa 1892-1913
Editors: C Schrire & G Schrire
There is a vast and varied literature on the formation of 19th-century diasporic communities worldwide. Now, added to this are the previously unpublished autobiographical works of two members of the Schrire family, which form the core of The Reb and the Rebel, mainly covering the period 1892–1913. They comprise a diary, a poem and a memoir. The rst two, written by Yehuda Leib Schrire (1851–1912), chart his journey through a number of countries, including Lithuania, Holland, England and South Africa. The third is by his son, Harry Nathan (1895–1980). The social history within these documents paints a lively picture of South African Jewish communities at the turn of the 20th century. The diary and poem were penned in pre-Ben Yehuda Hebrew, from which they have been translated into English. Binding these works together are essays on the South African context of the manuscripts and on their authors, as well as a genealogy in which many South African Jewish family names can be seen, a description of the documents relating to the manuscripts, and a glossary of Hebrew words. This is history at a microscopic level, but it is what makes history come alive.
2015
224 pages
Soft cover
Print: 978 1 77582 082 6 Web pdf: 978 1 77582 088 8 World rights available R284.00 / $27.95 / £18.50 BISAC: HIS047000
BIC: HBTB
2016
264 pages
Soft cover
Print: 978 1 79922 493 1 World rights available R295.00 / $28.95 / £19.50 BISAC: BIO006000
BIC: BGH