David Wagner

Broschiertes Buch

The New Temperance

The American Obsession With Sin and Vice

Beschreibung

The New Temperance questions the constant mantra in the media and in political debates about the dangers of personal behavior and challenges America's love affair with repression. It reviews the Republican strategy on sin developed in the 1960s and 1970s.

Autor

David Wagner is associate professor of social work and sociology at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of two previous books, including Checkerboard Square (Westview, 1993), winner of the 1993 C. Wright Mills Award.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780813325699
• ISBN-10: 0813325692
• Artikelnr.: 22260791