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BL
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| Record Number
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582232
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GBA2-X9831b411451
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| Main Entry
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Boyer, Paul S
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| Title & Author
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Purity in print : : book censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age /\ Paul S. Boyer
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| Edition Statement
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2nd ed
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| Publication Statement
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Madison, Wis. :: University of Wisconsin Press,, c2002
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| Series Statement
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Print culture history in modern America
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| Page. NO
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xxviii, 466 p., [22] p. of plates :: ill., ports. ;; cm
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| ISBN
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0299175847 (paper : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Subject
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Censorship-- United States-- History
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Obscenity (Law)-- United States
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| Dewey Classification
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363.3/1/0973
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