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Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890-1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and “Immorality”

Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890-1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and “Immorality” REVIEW ARTICLE | 167 Book Reviews Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890-1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and “Immorality” By Jessica R. PLILEY, Robert KRAMM, and Harald FISCHER- TINÉ Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xvi + 366 pp. ISBN: 978-110-710266-8 (Hardcover) Reviewed by Joseph BOHLING Portland State University, United States doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12773/arwh.2017.5.1.167 As this edited volume makes clear, vice makes the world go round. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a variety of people from across the globe were linked through the underworld of international trade and through efforts to contain it. From communes to colonies, from West Africa to China, people with different motivations and working in diverse contexts consumed and combated drink, drugs, and sex trafficking. Finding a common theme in a book of this scope is a daunting task, but David Courtwright’s conclusion hints at one, even if the individual articles could have gravitated around it more—that perceptions of, and practices around, vice have to do with the goals of the entities that control the global political economy. 168 | ASIAN REVIEW OF WORLD HISTORIES 4:2 (JULY 2016) The aim of Global Anti-Vice Activism is to show the role that anti-vice activism played in building a global community http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Review of World Histories Brill

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REVIEW ARTICLE | 167 Book Reviews Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890-1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and “Immorality” By Jessica R. PLILEY, Robert KRAMM, and Harald FISCHER- TINÉ Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xvi + 366 pp. ISBN: 978-110-710266-8 (Hardcover) Reviewed by Joseph BOHLING Portland State University, United States doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12773/arwh.2017.5.1.167 As this edited volume makes clear, vice makes the world go round. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a variety of people from across the globe were linked through the underworld of international trade and through efforts to contain it. From communes to colonies, from West Africa to China, people with different motivations and working in diverse contexts consumed and combated drink, drugs, and sex trafficking. Finding a common theme in a book of this scope is a daunting task, but David Courtwright’s conclusion hints at one, even if the individual articles could have gravitated around it more—that perceptions of, and practices around, vice have to do with the goals of the entities that control the global political economy. 168 | ASIAN REVIEW OF WORLD HISTORIES 4:2 (JULY 2016) The aim of Global Anti-Vice Activism is to show the role that anti-vice activism played in building a global community

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Asian Review of World HistoriesBrill

Published: Jun 29, 2017

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