Warwick Anderson

The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of the role medicine and public health played in determining race and nationality in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 158mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338406
• ISBN-10: 0822338408
• Artikelnr.: 21768252

Autorenporträt

Warwick Anderson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
The Temperate South
1. Antipodean Britons 11
2. A Cultivated Society 41
The Northern Tropics
3. No Place for a White Man 73
4. The Making of the Tropical White Man 95
5. White Triumph in the Tropics? 139
6. Whitening the Nation 165
Aboriginal Australia
7. From Deserts the Prophets Come 191
8. The Reproductive Frontier 225
Conclusion: Biology and Nation 253
Abbreviations 259
Notes 261
Bibliography of Works Cited 329
Index 381