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Author Fuller, Wayne E. (Wayne Edison), 1919-2004

Title Morality and the mail in nineteenth-century America / Wayne E. Fuller
Published Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, [2003]
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Contents Mail on the Sabbath -- Sabbath mail and the separation of church and state -- Changing the Sabbath to a day of rest -- Sunday newspapers and the day of rest -- The post office, the pornography in the gilded age -- The attack upon impure literature in the mail -- The post office, and the paperback controversy -- For the preservation of the American family -- The postal power, Protestants, and the lottery -- Immoral mail and the enforcement of Evangelical morality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
SUBJECT United States Postal Service gnd
Subject Postal service -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Sunday legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
RELIGION -- General.
Postal service
Sunday legislation
Moralismus
Evangelischen.
Postwezen.
Verandering.
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718444
ISBN 9780252091353
0252091353