Global anti-vice activism, 1890-1950 : fighting drinks, drugs, and "immorality" / Jessica R. Pliley, Robert Kramm, Harald Fischer-Tiné

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

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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