Matthew M Heaton
Biographic Data
| ID | 288121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew M Heaton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew M |
| FAMILY NAME | Heaton |
| SIGNATURE | HEATON M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6699-2562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Doctor Who Would Be King by Guillaume Lachenal (review)
be aware of the substantial and diverse publications on Jansenism.Yet the bilingual edition by McClive will be crucial reading for a range of scholars, including those in women's studies, women's history, and the broader history of health care, while allowing students to hear the voice of an early modern French woman who was previously either partly or entirely silenced
Decolonising the Hajj
This book recounts the effects of British colonial rule and decolonization on the transformation of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) from Nigeria over the course of the twentieth century. In so doing, it incorporates Nigeria into broader historical understanding of one of the most important transnational processes in the world
European Contact and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the Gulf of Guinea
This chapter examines the growth and impacts of European contacts and the trade in slaves on peoples and places that make up contemporary Nigeria. The trade in human beings between indigenous groups and Europeans on the coast was built on structures and markets that had existed for a long time in the interior of the continent, but with greater intensity between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries CE. The dynamics of the slave trade diffe…
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History provides a comprehensive history of Africa’s most populous and most rapidly developing country. Rather than centering the rise of the nation-state, the Handbook reads the narrative of the national politics alongside deeper histories of political and social organization, as well as in relation to competing influences on modern identity formation and inter-group relationships, such as ethnic and religious com…
Decolonising the Hajj
This article argues that viewing the hajj through the lens of decolonisation allows us to see the complexity and conflicts that went into transforming the global pilgrimage to Mecca from a set of rules and processes governed by empires to one governed by independent nation-states. It examines the effects of nationalism and decolonisation on the hajj through three case studies involving different parts of the British Empire at different times betw…
The politics and practice of Thomas Adeoye Lambo
This article traces the career of Thomas Adeoye Lambo, the first European-trained psychiatrist of indigenous Nigerian (Yoruba) background and one of the key contributors to the international development of transcultural psychiatry from the 1950s to the 1980s. The focus on Lambo provides some political, cultural and geographical balance to the broader history of transcultural psychiatry by emphasizing the contributions to transcultural psychiatric…
Nancy Rose Hunt. A Nervous State
In African and world history classes, the horrors perpetrated in the Congo Free State are a staple example of the excesses of European imperialism, and with good reason. But to what extent should the atrocities committed in the early twentieth century define the history of this region and its people? In addressing this question and many more, Nancy Rose Hunt’s A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo seeks to “move histo…
Ruling Minds
In colonial contexts, the science of the mind was an important endeavor both for those who sought deeper understanding of human nature and for those who sought to govern populations. As Erik Linstrum demonstrates in this book, however, these two hands did not always wash each other. Focusing on the work of experts in a variety of different psychological sciences between roughly the 1890s and the late 1950s, Ruling Minds emphasizes the limitations…
Contingencies of Colonial Psychiatry
Journal Article Contingencies of Colonial Psychiatry: Migration, Mental Illness, and the Repatriation of Nigerian 'Lunatics' Get access Matthew M. Heaton Matthew M. Heaton * *Matthew M. Heaton, Department of History, 409 Major Williams Hall (0117), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 27, Issue 1, February …
Aliens in the Asylum
This article examines the experiences of immigrants from British and French West African colonies in the Accra lunatic asylum in the first half of the twentieth century. Placing particular emphasis on how immigrants got into and out of the asylum, the article argues that immigrants were marginalized and manipulated by colonial psychiatric institutions to a greater extent than non-migrant colonial subjects in Gold Coast. In making this argument, t…
A History of Nigeria
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to…
Global Explanations Versus Local Interpretations
In 1918 an influenza pandemic of unprecedented virulence spread across the planet, infiltrating nearly all areas of human habitation. In less than a year the pandemic had run its course, ultimately responsible for some-where between 30,000,000 and 50,000,000 deaths worldwide. Truly, this was one of the greatest catastrophes in human history. However, despite the fact that the influenza pandemic has few historical rivals in terms of sheer loss of …
Excavations of a Mesolithic Site at Thatcham, Berkshire
Excavations were undertaken in advance of construction work at Newbury Sewage Treatment Works on the outskirts of Thatcham in Berkshire, close to the sites of previous excavations undertaken by Wymer and by Peake and Crawford. Worked flint of Mesolithic date was recovered from a sandy layer overlying river gravel in two distinct concentrations suggesting two distinct episodes. Use wear analysis of the flint suggests that the sites were used as ho…
Excavations of a Mesolithic Site at Thatcham, Berkshire
Excavations were undertaken in advance of construction work at Newbury Sewage Treatment Works on the outskirts of Thatcham in Berkshire, close to the sites of previous excavations undertaken by Wymer and by Peake and Crawford. Worked flint of Mesolithic date was recovered from a sandy layer overlying river gravel in two distinct concentrations suggesting two distinct episodes. Use wear analysis of the flint suggests that the sites were used as ho…
Global Explanations Versus Local Interpretations
In 1918 an influenza pandemic of unprecedented virulence spread across the planet, infiltrating nearly all areas of human habitation. In less than a year the pandemic had run its course, ultimately responsible for some-where between 30,000,000 and 50,000,000 deaths worldwide. Truly, this was one of the greatest catastrophes in human history. However, despite the fact that the influenza pandemic has few historical rivals in terms of sheer loss of …
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History provides a comprehensive history of Africa’s most populous and most rapidly developing country. Rather than centering the rise of the nation-state, the Handbook reads the narrative of the national politics alongside deeper histories of political and social organization, as well as in relation to competing influences on modern identity formation and inter-group relationships, such as ethnic and religious com…
Contingencies of Colonial Psychiatry
Journal Article Contingencies of Colonial Psychiatry: Migration, Mental Illness, and the Repatriation of Nigerian 'Lunatics' Get access Matthew M. Heaton Matthew M. Heaton * *Matthew M. Heaton, Department of History, 409 Major Williams Hall (0117), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 27, Issue 1, February …
Decolonising the Hajj
This article argues that viewing the hajj through the lens of decolonisation allows us to see the complexity and conflicts that went into transforming the global pilgrimage to Mecca from a set of rules and processes governed by empires to one governed by independent nation-states. It examines the effects of nationalism and decolonisation on the hajj through three case studies involving different parts of the British Empire at different times betw…
Excavations of a Mesolithic Site at Thatcham, Berkshire
Excavations were undertaken in advance of construction work at Newbury Sewage Treatment Works on the outskirts of Thatcham in Berkshire, close to the sites of previous excavations undertaken by Wymer and by Peake and Crawford. Worked flint of Mesolithic date was recovered from a sandy layer overlying river gravel in two distinct concentrations suggesting two distinct episodes. Use wear analysis of the flint suggests that the sites were used as ho…
Global Explanations Versus Local Interpretations
In 1918 an influenza pandemic of unprecedented virulence spread across the planet, infiltrating nearly all areas of human habitation. In less than a year the pandemic had run its course, ultimately responsible for some-where between 30,000,000 and 50,000,000 deaths worldwide. Truly, this was one of the greatest catastrophes in human history. However, despite the fact that the influenza pandemic has few historical rivals in terms of sheer loss of …
A History of Nigeria
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to…
Contingencies of Colonial Psychiatry
Journal Article Contingencies of Colonial Psychiatry: Migration, Mental Illness, and the Repatriation of Nigerian 'Lunatics' Get access Matthew M. Heaton Matthew M. Heaton * *Matthew M. Heaton, Department of History, 409 Major Williams Hall (0117), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 27, Issue 1, February …
Aliens in the Asylum
This article examines the experiences of immigrants from British and French West African colonies in the Accra lunatic asylum in the first half of the twentieth century. Placing particular emphasis on how immigrants got into and out of the asylum, the article argues that immigrants were marginalized and manipulated by colonial psychiatric institutions to a greater extent than non-migrant colonial subjects in Gold Coast. In making this argument, t…
Ruling Minds
In colonial contexts, the science of the mind was an important endeavor both for those who sought deeper understanding of human nature and for those who sought to govern populations. As Erik Linstrum demonstrates in this book, however, these two hands did not always wash each other. Focusing on the work of experts in a variety of different psychological sciences between roughly the 1890s and the late 1950s, Ruling Minds emphasizes the limitations…
Nancy Rose Hunt. A Nervous State
In African and world history classes, the horrors perpetrated in the Congo Free State are a staple example of the excesses of European imperialism, and with good reason. But to what extent should the atrocities committed in the early twentieth century define the history of this region and its people? In addressing this question and many more, Nancy Rose Hunt’s A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo seeks to “move histo…
The politics and practice of Thomas Adeoye Lambo
This article traces the career of Thomas Adeoye Lambo, the first European-trained psychiatrist of indigenous Nigerian (Yoruba) background and one of the key contributors to the international development of transcultural psychiatry from the 1950s to the 1980s. The focus on Lambo provides some political, cultural and geographical balance to the broader history of transcultural psychiatry by emphasizing the contributions to transcultural psychiatric…
Decolonising the Hajj
This article argues that viewing the hajj through the lens of decolonisation allows us to see the complexity and conflicts that went into transforming the global pilgrimage to Mecca from a set of rules and processes governed by empires to one governed by independent nation-states. It examines the effects of nationalism and decolonisation on the hajj through three case studies involving different parts of the British Empire at different times betw…
European Contact and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the Gulf of Guinea
This chapter examines the growth and impacts of European contacts and the trade in slaves on peoples and places that make up contemporary Nigeria. The trade in human beings between indigenous groups and Europeans on the coast was built on structures and markets that had existed for a long time in the interior of the continent, but with greater intensity between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries CE. The dynamics of the slave trade diffe…
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History provides a comprehensive history of Africa’s most populous and most rapidly developing country. Rather than centering the rise of the nation-state, the Handbook reads the narrative of the national politics alongside deeper histories of political and social organization, as well as in relation to competing influences on modern identity formation and inter-group relationships, such as ethnic and religious com…
Decolonising the Hajj
This book recounts the effects of British colonial rule and decolonization on the transformation of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) from Nigeria over the course of the twentieth century. In so doing, it incorporates Nigeria into broader historical understanding of one of the most important transnational processes in the world
The Doctor Who Would Be King by Guillaume Lachenal (review)
be aware of the substantial and diverse publications on Jansenism.Yet the bilingual edition by McClive will be crucial reading for a range of scholars, including those in women's studies, women's history, and the broader history of health care, while allowing students to hear the voice of an early modern French woman who was previously either partly or entirely silenced
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