Imperial Hygiene

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Imperial Hygiene is written by A. Bashford and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230508189 (ISBN 10) and 9780230508187 (ISBN 13).

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 .