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

Anderson, Warwick,

The cultivation of whiteness : science, health and racial destiny in Australia / Warwick Anderson. - Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2002. - xi, 352 p. : ill., maps, ports. ;

"Bibliography of works cited": p. 299-343. Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-298) and index.

The Temperate South: 1. Antipodean Britons; 2. A cultivated society -- The Northern Tropics: 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 -- Aboriginal Australia: 7. From deserts the prophets came; 8. The reproductive frontier -- Conclusion: Biology and nation.

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Social medicine--Australia
Whites--Australia
Whites--Australia

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