Geographies of regulation : policing prostitution in nineteenth-century Britain and the empire / Phi...
Geographies of regulation : policing prostitution in nineteenth-century Britain and the empire / Phi...
Geographies of regulation : policing prostitution in nineteenth-century Britain and the empire / Philip Howell.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Date
2009.
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N363.44091/1
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English
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Physical content
xii, 299p. : ill., maps. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : Britain and the historical geography of regulationism -- Partial legislation and privileged places : the contagious diseases acts -- Liverpool, localisation, and the municipal regulation of prostitution in Britain -- A private contagious diseases act : prostitution and the proctorial...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2009.
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Summary
"The book challenges our understanding of what constitutes colonial regulation and also confronts imperial historiographies in which projects are simply translated from metropolis to periphery. By emphasizing both particular sites of regulated prostitution, and their place in the British imperial world, this book contributes not only to histories o...
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Geographies of regulation : policing prostitution in nineteenth-century Britain and the empire / Philip Howell.
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Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 43.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N363.44091/1
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74Vv3oMO6dRZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv3oMO6dRZ
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ISBN
0521853656 (hbk.)
9780521853651 (hbk.)
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363.440917124109034
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991009798329702626
