| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
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Illinois language |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
White slavery and journalism's shifting axis of truth -- William T. Stead and the "soul" of sensationalism -- The journalism of reform and the reform of journalism -- George Kibbe Turner, muckraking, and the brief reign of piteous facts -- Authorizing skepticism: the New York Times and the demise of muckraking -- From sensation to secrecy: the Rockefeller grand jury and its aftermath. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the penny presses of the industrial East treated brothels as a mundane, if annoying, aspect of city life. But later in the century, reformers and mainstream papers began to push back against this representation through highly public campaigns against "white slavery." These newspaper crusades mixed a potent cocktail of lurid sexual detail and sensationalist scandal aimed equally at promoting anti-vice measures, arousing popular demand for progressive reform, and increasing newspaper circulation. In Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and th |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human trafficking -- Press coverage -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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Human trafficking. |
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Press coverage. |
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New York (State) |
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History. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Human trafficking -- Press coverage -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
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Sensationalism in journalism -- United States -- History.
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Sensationalism in journalism. |
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United States. |
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Journalism -- United States -- History.
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Journalism. |
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Illinois -- Chicago. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Soderlund, Gretchen, 1970- Sex trafficking, scandal, and the transformation of journalism, 1885-1917. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013 9780226021362 (DLC) 2012043194 (OCoLC)809911019 |
| ISBN |
9780226021676 (electronic book) |
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022602167X (electronic book) |
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9781299560918 (online) |
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1299560911 |
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9780226021362 |
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022602136X |
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9780226021539 |
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022602153X |
| Standard No. |
40022471632 |
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