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Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the United State

While the assumption of a sharp distinction between learned culture and lay society has been broadly challenged over the past three decades, the question of how

Founding Friends is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. It uses an extraordinarily r

Crimes committed by Jews, especially ritual murders, have long been favorite targets in the antisemitic press. This book investigates popular and scientific con

This book offers a new, salutogenic, perspective on the development of early modern cities by exploring profound and complex ways in which architecture and land