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Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health
Alison Bashford
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Description for Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBTQ; JFF; MBS; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 27. Weight in Grams: 366.
This is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies, from Victorian Vaccines to the pathologized interwar immigrant, from smallpox quarantine to the leper colony, from sexual hygiene to national hygiene to imperial hygiene. Taking British colonialism and White Australia as case studies, the book examines public health as spatialized biopolitical governance between 1850 and 1950. Colonial management of race dovetailed with public health into new boundaries of rule, into racialised cordons sanitaires .
This is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies, from Victorian Vaccines to the pathologized interwar immigrant, from smallpox quarantine to the leper colony, from sexual hygiene to national hygiene to imperial hygiene. Taking British colonialism and White Australia as case studies, the book examines public health as spatialized biopolitical governance between 1850 and 1950. Colonial management of race dovetailed with public health into new boundaries of rule, into racialised cordons sanitaires .
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349509560
SKU
V9781349509560
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99-15
About Alison Bashford
Alison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has taught Pacific and Australian history at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Harvard University, USA.
Reviews for Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health
This book weaves the history of public health, nationalism and race in Australia and the British Empire into a master narrative of imperial projects on hygiene, segregation and borders. Imperial Hygiene broke new ground in the global history of medicine and in the years to come will remain a vital text for scholars working on colonial and global health.' ... Read more