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Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior, And Swearing In American History
Author: Burnham, John C.
Series#:28; American Social Experience; Paperback; 53 Illustrations
385 pages
New York University Press
ISBN: 081471224X

This work describes the genesis of habits such as cigarette smoking, taking drugs, drinking, swearing and swinging. It sees these as rituals of transgression . Burnham shows how the bad habits of the Victorian underworld become the minor-vice industrial complex of the 20th century.



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