Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health

by Alison Bashford

Book Overview

Now published for the first time in paperback, Alison Bashford's innovative study is a cultural history of borders, hygiene, and race. It is about foreign bodies, from Victorian vaccines to the pathologised interwar immigrants; from smallpox quarantine to the leper colony; from sexual hygiene to national hygiene to racial hygiene. Taking British colonialism and White Australia as case studies, the book examines the enclosures, boundaries and borders...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137429216
• ISBN13: 9781137429216
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"