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

A. Bashford

Palgrave Macmillan UK, Nov 11, 2003 - Social Science - 264 pages

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 .

About the author

Alison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has taught Pacific and Australian history at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Harvard University, USA.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health
• Author: A. Bashford
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2003
• ISBN: 1137429216, 9781137429216
• Length: 264 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain / General; History / General; History / World; Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; Political Science / Imperialism; Science / History; Social Science / Disease & Health Issues; Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity; Social Science / Sociology / General