Those They Called Idiots

Those They Called Idiots
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Publisher : Reaktion Books
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781789143027
ISBN-13 : 1789143020
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Book Synopsis Those They Called Idiots by : Simon Jarrett

Download or read book Those They Called Idiots written by Simon Jarrett and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2025-04-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensitive and sweeping, this is a history of the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England, to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today’s society. Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today’s society. Using evidence from civil and criminal courtrooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art, and caricature, it explores the explosive intermingling of ideas about intelligence and race, while bringing into sharp focus the lives of people often seen as the most marginalized in society.


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