| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Alan Hunt. Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation. (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 273. Cloth $64.95, paper $22.95.

Alan Hunt has written the first comparative historical sociology of moral regulation, the form of voluntary and state politics "in which some people act to problematise the conduct, values or culture of others and seek to impose regulation upon them" (p. 1). While part of the author's purpose is to test and refine this concept, his case-studies consist of the most important British and American movements for social purity. This is a theoretically ambitious cross-temporal and transatlantic study of the late seventeenth-century Societies for the Reformation of Manners, the early nineteenth-century Vice Society, the late nineteenth-century social purity movements in Britain and America, and the "sexual victim movements" of our own day. . . .

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