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1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 333 pages)
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ISBN:
9781316212592
Content:
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 approached the issue of vice by expressing worries about the body, its physical health, and functionality. By situating anti-vice politics in their broader historical contexts, Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890–1950 sheds fresh light on the initiatives of various actors, organizations and institutions which have previously been treated primarily within national and regional boundaries. Looking at anti-vice policy from both social and cultural historical perspectives, it illuminates the centrality of regulating vice in imperial and national modernization projects. The contributors argue that vice and vice regulation constitute an ideal topic for global history, because they bridge the gap between discourse and practice, and state and civil society.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107500754
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107102668
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107102668
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107500754
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Global anti-vice activism, 1890-1950 Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016 ISBN 9781107102668
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107500754
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781107102668
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Alkoholismus
;
Drogenmissbrauch
;
Prävention
;
Promiskuität
;
Regierung
;
Geschichte 1890-1950
;
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316212592
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