Global anti-vice activism, 1890-1950 : fighting drinks, drugs, and "immorality" /

Vice was one of the primary shared interests of the global community at the turn of the twentieth century. Anti-vice activists worked to combat noxious substances such as alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, and 'immoral' sexual activities such as prostitution. Nearly all of these activists appr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pliley, Jessica R., 1977- (Editor ), Kramm, Robert (Editor ), Fischer-Tiné, Harald (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016
Temas:
Graubünden > Regierung
Alcoholism > Prevention > Government policy.
Drug abuse > Prevention > Government policy.
Promiscuity > Prevention > Government policy.
Substance-Related Disorders > prevention & control
Drug and Narcotic Control > history
Sex Work > legislation & jurisprudence
Sexual Behavior > history
Social Problems > legislation & jurisprudence
Public Policy > history
Morals
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Alcoolisme > Prévention > Politique gouvernementale.
Toxicomanie > Prévention > Politique gouvernementale.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Alkoholismus
Drogenmissbrauch
Prävention
Promiskuität
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a plea for a "vicious turn'' in global history / Jessica R. Pliley, Robert Kramm, and Harald Fischer-Tine
  • Modernity, vice, and the problem of nakedness / Philippa Levine
  • "Godless Edens": surveillance, eroticized anarchy, and "depraved communities" in Britain and the wider world, 1890-1930 / Antony Taylor
  • Physical culture as "natural healing": Eugen Sandow's campaign against the vices of civilization c. 1890-1920 / Carey A. Watt
  • The specter of degeneration: alcohol and race in West Africa in the early twentieth century / Charles Ambler
  • A question of social medicine or racial hygiene? The Bulgarian temperance discourse and eugenics in the interwar period, 1920-1940 / Nikolay Kamenov
  • Threats to empire: illicit distillation, venereal diseases, and colonial disorder in British West Africa, 1930-1948 / Emmanuel Akyeampong
  • Medical and criminological constructions of drug addiction in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia / Pavel Vasilyev
  • Cigarette smoking in modern Buenos Aires: the sudden change in a century-old continuity / DiegoArmus
  • The FBI's White Slave Division: the creation of a national regulatory regime to police prostitutes in the United States, 1910-1918 / Jessica R. Pliley
  • Anti-vice lives: peopling the archives of prostitution in interwar India / Stephen Legg
  • China's prostitution regulation system in an international context, 1900-19 / Elizabeth J. Remick
  • "Hey, GI, want pretty flower girl?": venereal disease, sanitation, and geopolitics in US-occupied Japan and Korea, 1945-1948 / Robert Kramm
  • Global anti-vice activism: a postmortem / David T. Courtwright

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