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Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890-1950 - Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and ''Immorality''

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Informationen zum Autor Jessica R. Pliley is an Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender History at Texas State University, San Marcos. Robert Kramm-Masaoka is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture at Hanyang University, Seoul. Harald Fischer-Tiné is Professor of Modern Global History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH-Zürich). Klappentext This book places vice and vice regulation in their global social and cultural contexts at the turn of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung This book sheds fresh light on the anti-vice initiatives of various actors! organizations and institutions which have previously been treated primarily within national and regional boundaries. Looking at anti-vice policy from global social and cultural historical perspectives! it illuminates the centrality of regulating vice in imperial and national modernization projects. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Jessica R. Pliley, Robert Kramm-Masaoka and Harald Fischer-Tiné; Part I. Health and the Body: 2. Modernity, vice and the problem of nakedness Philippa Levine; 3. 'Godless Edens' - surveillance, eroticized anarchy and 'depraved communities' in Britain and the wider world, 1890-1930 Antony Taylor; 4. Physical culture as 'natural cure' - Eugen Sandow's global campaign against the diseases and vices of civilization, c.1890-1920 Carey A. Watt; Part II. Drinks and Drugs: 5. The specter of degeneration - alcohol and race in West Africa in the early twentieth century Charles Ambler; 6. A question of social medicine or racial hygiene? Temperance discourse in Bulgaria, 1920-40 Nikolay Kamenov; 7. Threats to Empire - illicit distillation, venereal diseases and colonial disorder in British West Africa, 1930-48 Emmanuel Akyeampong; 8. Medical and criminological constructions of drug addiction in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia Pavel Vasilyev; 9. Cigarette smoking in modern Buenos Aires - the sudden change in a century-old continuity Diego Armus; Part III. Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: 10. The FBI's white slave division - the creation of a national regulatory regime to police prostitutes in the United States, 1910-18 Jessica R. Pliley; 11. Anti-vice lives: peopling the archives of prostitution in interwar India Stephen Legg; 12. China's prostitution regulation system in an international context, 1900-37 Elizabeth Remick; 13. 'Hey, GI, want pretty flower girl?' - venereal disease, sanitation, and geopolitics in US-occupied Japan and Korea, 1945-8 Robert Kramm-Masaoka; 14. Afterword David Courtwright....

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