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040 _cCUS
082 _a320
_bHEA/P
100 _aHealth, Deana
245 0 _aPurifying empire: Obscenity and the politics of moral regulation in Britain, India and Australia/
_cDeana Health
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bCambridge University press,
_c2010.
300 _a238 p.
505 _aIntroduction: 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.
650 _aObscenity (Law) -- Colonies -- Great Britain.
650 _aGreat Britain -- Colonies -- Administration.
650 _aGreat Britain -- Colonies -- History
942 _cWB16