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Author Heath, Deana.

Title Purifying empire : obscenity and the politics of moral regulation in Britain, India and Australia / Deana Heath
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010
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Description 1 online resource (238 pages)
Series Cambridge books online
Contents Machine generated contents note: 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
Summary "Purifying Empire explores the material, cultural and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of imperial and colonial rule in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It charts how a particular bio-political project, namely the drive to regulate the obscene in late nineteenth-century Britain, was transformed from a national into a global and imperial venture and then re-localized in two different colonial contexts, India and Australia, to serve decidedly different ends. While a considerable body of work has demonstrated both the role of empire in shaping moral regulatory projects in Britain and their adaptation, transformation and, at times, rejection in colonial contexts, this book illustrates that it is in fact only through a comparative and transnational framework that it is possible to elucidate both the temporalist nature of colonialism and the political, racial and moral contradictions that sustained imperial and colonial regimes"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-236) and index
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Subject Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Obscenity (Law) -- Great Britain -- History
Obscenity (Law) -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
Obscenity (Law) -- Australia -- History
Obscenity (Law) -- India -- History
Nationalism -- Australia -- History
Nationalism -- India -- History
Imperialism -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
Imperialism -- Colonies -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Pornography.
Imperialism -- British colonies
Imperialism -- Social aspects
Nationalism
Obscenity (Law)
Australia
Great Britain
India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511729256
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9780511730122
0511730128
9780521194358
0521194350
9781107676596
1107676592