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This book weaves the history of public health, nationalism and race in Australia and the British Empire into a master narrative of imperial projects on hygiene, segregation and borders. Imperial Hygiene broke new ground in the global history of medicine and in the years to come will remain a vital text for scholars working on colonial and global health.' Dr Pratik Chakrabarti, University of Kent, UK Bashford delivers a very innovative study on colonial medicine in the global context of nationalism. - Eva Marie Stolberg, H-Net Bashford's book provides a very interesting overarching historical narrative of how spatial management of health and race were central to the process of nation-building in Australia. - Amna Khalid, BJHS

This book weaves the history of public health, nationalism and race in Australia and the British Empire into a master narrative of imperial projects on hygiene, segregation and borders. Imperial Hygiene broke new ground in the global history of medicine and in the years to come will remain a vital text for scholars working on colonial and global health.' Dr Pratik Chakrabarti, University of Kent, UK Bashford delivers a very innovative study on colonial medicine in the global context of nationalism. - Eva Marie Stolberg, H-Net Bashford's book provides a very interesting overarching historical narrative of how spatial management of health and race were central to the process of nation-building in Australia. - Amna Khalid, BJHS

Bashford delivers a very innovative study on colonial medicine in the global context of nationalism. - Eva Marie Stolberg, H-Net Bashford's book provides a very interesting overarching historical narrative of how spatial management of health and race were central to the process of nation-building in Australia. - Amna Khalid, BJHS

This book weaves the history of public health, nationalism and race in Australia and the British Empire into a master narrative of imperial projects on hygiene, segregation and borders. Imperial Hygiene broke new ground in the global history of medicine and in the years to come will remain a vital text for scholars working on colonial and global health.' Dr Pratik Chakrabarti, University of Kent, UK Bashford delivers a very innovative study on colonial medicine in the global context of nationalism. - Eva Marie Stolberg, H-Net Bashford's book provides a very interesting overarching historical narrative of how spatial management of health and race were central to the process of nation-building in Australia. - Amna Khalid, BJHS

This book weaves the history of public health, nationalism and race in Australia and the British Empire into a master narrative of imperial projects on hygiene, segregation and borders. Imperial Hygiene broke new ground in the global history of medicine and in the years to come will remain a vital text for scholars working on colonial and global health.' - Dr Pratik Chakrabarti, University of Kent, UK Bashford delivers a very innovative study on colonial medicine in the global context of nationalism. - Eva Marie Stolberg, H-Net Bashford's book provides a very interesting overarching historical narrative of how spatial management of health and race were central to the process of nation-building in Australia. - Amna Khalid, BJHS

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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.

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