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This is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland. Examining architecture and material culture, it proposes that the familiar asylum archetype, usually attributed to the Victorians, was in fact developed much earlier. -- .

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Reveals a fascinating story of how Chinese fish curers successfully dominated Australia's fishing industry; how they lived, worked, organised themselves, participated in colonial society, and the reasons why they suddenly disappeared.