Daniel Hack: 3 books

History of the Insane in the British Isles Daniel Hack Tuke, english physician and expert on mental illness (1827-1895) This ebook presents «History of the Insane in the British Isles», from Daniel Hack Tuke. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....

I think it was Pascal who said that the last thing an author does in making a book is to discover what to put at the beginning. This discovery is easily made in the present instance. I wish to state that the range of this book, as its title implies, is mainly restricted to the salient points of the historical...

Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in much more intricate, sustained, and imaginative...