Purifying empire : obscenity and the politics of moral regulation in Britain, India and Australia /

"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 lat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heath, Deana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Cambridge books online.
Temas:
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.
Impérialisme > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
Nationalisme > Australie > Histoire.
Impérialisme > Colonies > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Pornography.
Imperialism > British colonies.
Imperialism > Social aspects.
Nationalism.
Obscenity (Law)
Australia.
Great Britain.
India.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.

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