| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Roy Porter and David Wright, editors. The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, 1800–1965. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xvii, 371. $70.00.

Since his death in March 2002, the number of published volumes either written or edited by Roy Porter has been truly remarkable, evidence of the formidable energies that went with him into retirement. The present collection, jointly produced with David Wright, has a claim to be the most ambitious of them all, tackling as it does, in fourteen lucid and detailed essays, international perspectives on confinement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from as far afield as the United States, Canada, Argentina, and Mexico in the Americas, Britain, Ireland, France, Switzerland, and Germany in Europe, Nigeria, South Africa, India, and Australia in the old British colonial empire, and Japan in the Far East.

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