1st Edition
Knowledge Making Historians, Archives and Bureaucracy
Introduction: Bureaucracy, archive files, and the making of knowledge
Barbara Brookes and James Dunk
1. Asylum case records: fact and fiction
Sally Swartz
2. Bookkeeping madness. Archives and filing between court and ward
Volker Hess
3. Work, paperwork and the imaginary Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum, 1846
James Dunk
4. Papering over madness: accountability and resistance in colonial asylum files: a New Zealand case study
Barbara Brookes
5. Paper Soldiers: the life, death and reincarnation of nineteenth-century military files across the British Empire
Charlotte Macdonald and Rebecca Lenihan
6. Red ink, blue ink, blood and tears? War records and nation-making in Australia and New Zealand
Kathryn Hunter
7. A tale of two bureaucracies: asylum and lunacy law paperwork
James Moran
Biography
Barbara Brookes is Professor of History at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her research interests lie in medical and gender history. Her award-winning A History of New Zealand Women, Bridget Williams Books, was published in 2016. She is currently working on a biography of Anna Longshore Potts MD.
James Dunk is a historian of medicine and science at the University of Sydney, Australia, and is working on psychological and public health responses to global environmental change. His history of madness in colonial Australia, Bedlam at Botany Bay, was published by NewSouth in 2019 and shortlisted for the Ernest Scott Prize.
