Esme Cleall is a senior lecturer in the History Department, University of Sheffield. Her first book is Missionary Discourses of Difference: negotiating difference in the British Empire, c. 1840-1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and her second Colonising Disability: impairment and otherness across Britain and its empire, c.1800-1914 (Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming 2022).

Part 1: Power

[...] Middle Passage, the Market, and the Plantation: Slavery-Induced Disability in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean

Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy

2. 'Able', 'Dis-abled' and 'Invalid' Labourers: disability and indenture in Mauritius and Natal, c. 1840-1910'

Madhwi

3. 'The Colonial Invention of Disability. The Politics of Disability and Productivity in Kenya, 1940s-1960s', Sam De Schutter

Part 2: Place

4. 'Policies for Disabled People in the French Colonies 1918-1962: evolutions and heterogeneity'

Gildas Brégain

5. 'Imperial Mobilities: Disability, Indigeneity, and the United States West, 1850-1920', pp. 110-128.

Caroline Lieffers

6. 'Accepting and opposing local deaf tradition. The Polish d/Deaf community after the fall of communism: 1989-2014', pp. 129-150.

Magdalena Zdrodowska

Part 3: Personhood

7.'Coup de Soleil - William Baillie (1789-1869) and an Eastern (mis)Adventure', pp. 151-168.

Iain Hutchison

8. "Unsightly and Unruly": The Visual and Legal Politics of Disability and Gender in the US Ugly Laws

Lisa Beckmann