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Purity in print : book censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age /

The first edition of Purity in Print documented book censorship in America from the 1870s to the 1930s, embedding it within the larger social and cultural history of the time. In this second edition, Boyer adds two new chapters carrying his history forward to the beginning of the twenty-first centur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boyer, Paul S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2002.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Print culture history in modern America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The vice societies in the nineteenth century
  • The vice societies in the Progressive Era
  • The First World War
  • The first postwar clash-1918-22
  • The "Clean Books" crusade
  • The latter 1920s
  • "Banned in Boston"
  • The onslaught against federal censorship
  • The thirties
  • The shifting rhythms of censorship from the 1950s to the 1970s
  • 1980 to the present : symbolic crusades, embattled libraries, feminist interventions, new technologies.