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Traps for the Young by Anthony Comstock 9781605209180
Booksplease Price: $38.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605209180Author Anthony ComstockFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher... -
Traps For The Young by Anthony Comstock 9781498006880
RRP: $69.20Booksplease Price: $60.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498006880Author Anthony ComstockFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
Censored Angel: Anthony Comstock's Nemesis by Joan Koster 9781959318125
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959318125Author Joan KosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Joan KosterPublisher Joan... -
Frauds Exposed: Or How The People Are Deceived And Robbed, And Youth Corrupted by Anthony Comstock 9781497840126
RRP: $128.00Booksplease Price: $110.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497840126Author Anthony ComstockFormat HardbackPage Count 580Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
Frauds Exposed: Or How the People Are Deceived and Robbed, and Youth Corrupted by Anthony Comstock 9781605209043
Booksplease Price: $38.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605209043Author Anthony ComstockFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher... -
Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock by Amy Werbel
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.67Anthony Comstock was America's first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a crusade against lasciviousness,... -
Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America by Nicola Kay Beisel
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $88.39Moral reform movements claiming to protect children began to emerge in the United States over a century ago, most notably when Anthony Comstock and his supporters crusaded to restrict the circulation... -
Frauds Exposed: Or How The People Are Deceived And Robbed, And Youth Corrupted by Anthony Comstock 9781498117722
RRP: $102.80Booksplease Price: $91.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498117722Author Anthony ComstockFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
The Sex Radicals: Free Love in High Victorian America by Hal D. Sears 9780700631698
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.58This volume provides the first account of the pioneering efforts at sex reform in America from the Gilded Age to the Progressive era. Despite the atmosphere of extreme prudery and the existence of... -
Dirty Year: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in Gilded Age New York by Bill Greer 9781641602518
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $40.43As 1872 opened, the New York Times headlined four stories that symptomized the decay in public morals that the editors so frequently decried: financier Jim Fisk was gunned down in a love triangle;... -
Village Atheists: How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation by Leigh Eric Schmidt 9780691183114
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $38.64A compelling history of atheism in American public lifeA much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding... -
Village Atheists: How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation by Leigh Eric Schmidt 9780691168647
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.67A much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a... -
Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff by Edward J. Balleisen 9780691183077
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.63A comprehensive history of fraud in America, from the early nineteenth century to the subprime mortgage crisisIn America, fraud has always been a key feature of business, and the national worship of... -
American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century by Christine Stansell 9780691142838
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $69.36In the early twentieth century, an exuberant brand of gifted men and women moved to New York City, not to get rich but to participate in a cultural revolution. For them, the city's immigrant... -
The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928 by Daniel Carpenter
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $101.01Until now political scientists have devoted little attention to the origins of American bureaucracy and the relationship between bureaucratic and interest group politics. In this pioneering book,... -
Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States by Gillian Frank
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $50.95At a moment when ""freedom of religion"" rhetoric fuels public debate, it is easy to assume that sex and religion have faced each other in pitched battle throughout modern U.S. history. Yet, by... -
Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy by Cathie Jo Martin
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $101.37According to conventional wisdom, big business wields enormous influence over America's political agenda and is responsible for the relatively limited scale of the country's social policies. In Stuck... -
Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz 9780691128368
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $45.26American philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses humanitarian crises. How did philanthropy become such a... -
Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South by Christopher S. Parker 9780691140049
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.67Fighting for Democracy shows how the experiences of African American soldiers during World War II and the Korean War influenced many of them to challenge white supremacy in the South when they... -
The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972 by Anthony S. Chen
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $66.13Where did affirmative action in employment come from? The conventional wisdom is that it was instituted during the Johnson and Nixon years through the backroom machinations of federal bureaucrats and... -
The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder: The First Amendment and the Censor's Dilemma by Robert Corn-Revere 9781107129948
RRP: $153.30Booksplease Price: $148.05Beginning in the nineteenth century with Anthony Comstock, America's 'censor in chief,' The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder explores how censors operate and why they wore out their... -
Freedom of the Press: Rights and Liberties under the Law by Nancy C. Cornwell 9781851094714
Booksplease Price: $109.22An authoritative yet accessible analysis of the historical development and contemporary scope of press freedoms in America. Freedom of the Press: Rights and Liberties under the Law examines the... -
Encyclopedia of Birth Control by Marian Rengel 9781573562553
Booksplease Price: $171.72The sociological, medical, and historical aspects of birth control in the twentieth century have been compiled in this unique, easy-to-use, and comprehensive resource. Objectively written and... -
The Origins of the American Detective Story by LeRoy Lad Panek 9780786427765
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $41.14Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a... -
Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States' and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression by Whitney Strub
Booksplease Price: $62.24For some, he was "America's leading smut king," hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail. But when Samuel Roth appealed a 1956 conviction, he... -
Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon: The Modern Library Series, 1917-1955 by Lise Jaillant
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.06In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series brought out cheap editions of modernist works. Books by writers including H G Wells, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, were published and marketed... -
The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder: The First Amendment and the Censor's Dilemma by Robert Corn-Revere
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.66Beginning in the nineteenth century with Anthony Comstock, America's 'censor in chief,' The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder explores how censors operate and why they wore out their... -
Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States' and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression by Whitney Strub 9780700619368
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $127.41For some, he was "America's leading smut king," hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail. But when Samuel Roth appealed a 1956 conviction, he... -
Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America Rebecca L. Davis 9781631496578
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $55.94Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes and the notion of a "tradwife" is gaining... -
Censoring Sex: A Historical Journey Through American Media by John E. Semonche 9780742551329
Booksplease Price: $91.90In this gracefully written, accessible and entertaining volume, John Semonche surveys censorship for reasons of sex from the nineteenth century up to the present. He covers the various forms of... -
Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry by Jon Lewis 9780814751435
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.85A tale of censorship and regulation at the heart of the modern film industry In 1972, The Godfather and Deep Throat were the two most popular films in the country. One, a major Hollywood studio... -
Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry by Jon Lewis 9780814751428
Booksplease Price: $202.21A tale of censorship and regulation at the heart of the modern film industry In 1972, The Godfather and Deep Throat were the two most popular films in the country. One, a major Hollywood studio... -
Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America by Rebecca L. Davis 9781324116752
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.60Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, and the notion of a "tradwife" is gaining...