Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: Books, boundaries and Britishness
- 1 Colonialism and governmentality
- 2 From sovereignty to governmentality: the emergence of obscenity regulation as a biopolitical project in Britain
- 3 Globalizing the local: imperial hygiene and the regulation of the obscene
- 4 Localizing the global in settler societies: regulating the obscene in Australia
- 5 Localizing the global in exploitation colonies: regulating the obscene in India
- Conclusion: Retangling empire, nation, colony and globe
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: Books, boundaries and Britishness
- 1 Colonialism and governmentality
- 2 From sovereignty to governmentality: the emergence of obscenity regulation as a biopolitical project in Britain
- 3 Globalizing the local: imperial hygiene and the regulation of the obscene
- 4 Localizing the global in settler societies: regulating the obscene in Australia
- 5 Localizing the global in exploitation colonies: regulating the obscene in India
- Conclusion: Retangling empire, nation, colony and globe
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Purifying EmpireObscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain, India and Australia, pp. vPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010