Health, Deana

Purifying empire: Obscenity and the politics of moral regulation in Britain, India and Australia/ Deana Health - New Delhi: Cambridge University press, 2010. - 238 p.

Introduction: books, boundaries and Britishness; 1. Colonialism and governmentality; 2. From sovereignty to governmentality: the emergence of obscenity regulation as a bio-political 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.

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Obscenity (Law) -- Colonies -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History

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