Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution (Politics and Society in Modern America, 162)

Frontmatter Contents Introduction: Two roads to Rio 1. The “New Abolitionists” the politics of prostitution in the late nineteenth century 2. Purifying Empire: India, the Philippines, and the war of 1898 3. “War on the White Slave Traffic” constructing sexual citizenship in the early twentieth century 4. Policing Women, Protecting Soldiers: the American plan on the world war I home front 5. The Caribbean Laboratory: the American plan and us Empire 6. A “Righteous Crusade” testing the American plan in France 7. “A World-Wide Influence” Americans and the league of nations Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index A note on the type