| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5 | The History Cooperative

Angus McLaren. Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 332. $35.00.
Angus McLaren's book is the type that makes you want to hit the archives and follow up his numerous hints and examples. In a profession that can often leave behind the flogged corpse of a topic, this is no small accomplishment.	1
This comparative work provides a systematic examination of the manner in which the expansion of "morals" legislation during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created a thriving industry in blackmail, or the exchange of money for silence, in Britain and America. Well into the twentieth century, sexual deviants—whether homosexuals, adulterers, abortionists, or unmarried, sexually active women—were victimized both by the law and by the outlaws that legislation helped foster.	. . .

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