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Purity in print book censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age

Title
Purity in print [electronic resource] : book censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age / Paul S. Boyer.
Author
Boyer, Paul S.
Publication
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.

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Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 466 p., [22] p. of plates) : ill., ports.
Series Statement
Print culture history in modern America
Uniform Title
Purity in print (Online)
Alternative Title
Purity in print (Online)
Subject
  • Censorship > United States > History
  • Obscenity (Law) > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
The vice societies in the nineteenth century -- The vice societies in the Progressive Era -- The First World War -- The first postwar clash-1918-22 -- The "Clean Books" crusade -- The latter 1920s -- "Banned in Boston" -- The onslaught against federal censorship -- The thirties -- The shifting rhythms of censorship from the 1950s to the 1970s -- 1980 to the present : symbolic crusades, embattled libraries, feminist interventions, new technologies.
LCCN
2002001066
OCLC
ssj0000426480
Author
Boyer, Paul S.
Title
Purity in print [electronic resource] : book censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age / Paul S. Boyer.
Imprint
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.
Edition
2nd ed.
Series
Print culture history in modern America
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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