Global anti-vice activism, 1890-1950 : fighting drinks, drugs, and "immorality" /
Global anti-vice activism, 1890-1950 : fighting drinks, drugs, and "immorality" /
Jessica R. Pliley, Robert Kramm, Harald Fischer-Tiné
- 1 online resource (xvi, 333 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: a plea for a "vicious turn'' in global history / Modernity, vice, and the problem of nakedness / "Godless Edens": surveillance, eroticized anarchy, and "depraved communities" in Britain and the wider world, 1890-1930 / Physical culture as "natural healing": Eugen Sandow's campaign against the vices of civilization c. 1890-1920 / The specter of degeneration: alcohol and race in West Africa in the early twentieth century / A question of social medicine or racial hygiene? The Bulgarian temperance discourse and eugenics in the interwar period, 1920-1940 / Threats to empire: illicit distillation, venereal diseases, and colonial disorder in British West Africa, 1930-1948 / Medical and criminological constructions of drug addiction in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia / Cigarette smoking in modern Buenos Aires: the sudden change in a century-old continuity / The FBI's White Slave Division: the creation of a national regulatory regime to police prostitutes in the United States, 1910-1918 / Anti-vice lives: peopling the archives of prostitution in interwar India / China's prostitution regulation system in an international context, 1900-19 / "Hey, GI, want pretty flower girl?": venereal disease, sanitation, and geopolitics in US-occupied Japan and Korea, 1945-1948 / Global anti-vice activism: a postmortem / Jessica R. Pliley, Robert Kramm, and Harald Fischer-Tine -- Philippa Levine -- Antony Taylor -- Carey A. Watt -- Charles Ambler -- Nikolay Kamenov -- Emmanuel Akyeampong -- Pavel Vasilyev -- DiegoArmus -- Jessica R. Pliley -- Stephen Legg -- Elizabeth J. Remick -- Robert Kramm -- David T. Courtwright
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 This book places vice and vice regulation in their global social and cultural contexts at the turn of the twentieth century
9781316212592 (electronic bk.) 1316212599 (electronic bk.) 9781316690383 1316690385 9781316689639 1316689638 (hardback) (hardback) (paperback) (paperback) 1316689131 9781316689134 1316689387 9781316689387
10.1017/CBO9781316212592 doi
4575420 Proquest Ebook Central
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.
Alcoholism--Prevention--Government policy.
Drug abuse--Prevention--Government policy.
Alkoholismus
Drogenmissbrauch
Prävention
Promiskuität
Electronic books.
RC565 / .G563 2016eb
362.292
2017 C-677 WM 11.1
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: a plea for a "vicious turn'' in global history / Modernity, vice, and the problem of nakedness / "Godless Edens": surveillance, eroticized anarchy, and "depraved communities" in Britain and the wider world, 1890-1930 / Physical culture as "natural healing": Eugen Sandow's campaign against the vices of civilization c. 1890-1920 / The specter of degeneration: alcohol and race in West Africa in the early twentieth century / A question of social medicine or racial hygiene? The Bulgarian temperance discourse and eugenics in the interwar period, 1920-1940 / Threats to empire: illicit distillation, venereal diseases, and colonial disorder in British West Africa, 1930-1948 / Medical and criminological constructions of drug addiction in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia / Cigarette smoking in modern Buenos Aires: the sudden change in a century-old continuity / The FBI's White Slave Division: the creation of a national regulatory regime to police prostitutes in the United States, 1910-1918 / Anti-vice lives: peopling the archives of prostitution in interwar India / China's prostitution regulation system in an international context, 1900-19 / "Hey, GI, want pretty flower girl?": venereal disease, sanitation, and geopolitics in US-occupied Japan and Korea, 1945-1948 / Global anti-vice activism: a postmortem / Jessica R. Pliley, Robert Kramm, and Harald Fischer-Tine -- Philippa Levine -- Antony Taylor -- Carey A. Watt -- Charles Ambler -- Nikolay Kamenov -- Emmanuel Akyeampong -- Pavel Vasilyev -- DiegoArmus -- Jessica R. Pliley -- Stephen Legg -- Elizabeth J. Remick -- Robert Kramm -- David T. Courtwright
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 This book places vice and vice regulation in their global social and cultural contexts at the turn of the twentieth century
9781316212592 (electronic bk.) 1316212599 (electronic bk.) 9781316690383 1316690385 9781316689639 1316689638 (hardback) (hardback) (paperback) (paperback) 1316689131 9781316689134 1316689387 9781316689387
10.1017/CBO9781316212592 doi
4575420 Proquest Ebook Central
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.
Alcoholism--Prevention--Government policy.
Drug abuse--Prevention--Government policy.
Alkoholismus
Drogenmissbrauch
Prävention
Promiskuität
Electronic books.
RC565 / .G563 2016eb
362.292
2017 C-677 WM 11.1