Colonising Disability : Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–1914

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Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its Empire. Using a wide range of sources, Esme Cleall sheds important light on identity, othering, representation and experience in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century drawing into question other key concepts such as race and 'normalcy'.