TY - BOOK AU - Health, Deana TI - Purifying empire: Obscenity and the politics of moral regulation in Britain, India and Australia SN - 9780521189200 U1 - 320 PY - 2010/// CY - New Delhi PB - Cambridge University press KW - Obscenity (Law) -- Colonies -- Great Britain. KW - Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration KW - Great Britain -- Colonies -- History N1 - 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 ER -