The cultivation of whiteness : science, health and racial destiny in Australia / Warwick Anderson.

Holdings

Loading holdings...

Record details

Publication details:
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2005.
Record id:
25160
Author:
Anderson, Warwick, 1958-
Subject:
Whites -- Medical care -- Australia -- 19th century.
Social medicine -- Australia -- 19th century.
Whites -- Race identity -- Australia.
Contents:
1. Antipodean Britons
2. A cultivated society
3. No place for a white man
4. The making of the tropical white man
5. White triumph in the tropics?
6. Whitening the nation
7. From deserts the prophets came
8. The reproductive frontier
Conclusion: biology and nation.
Note:
Includes index.
ISBN:
052285169x
Phys. description:
ix, 390 p. : ill., maps.