'Heath has written an exceptional book on nineteenth-century British colonial policy and the ways in which [this] came to impact policies in Australia and India and the governing of those nation states.' LIMINA: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies
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.
