Moral Problems in American Life
Subtitle: New Perspectives on Cultural History
Contributors: Karen Halttunen (Editor); Lewis Perry (Editor)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: January 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780801432705
Subjects: American history; Ethical issues & debates; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; United States - General; Social Science; Social Science Ethics; History - U.S.; United States; Sociology; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; Philosophy; General; Moral conditions; Social conditions
First sentence: In late 1690, several "Officers and Inhabitants" of the densely populated Tower Hamlets, a commercial district of East London along the Thames, met to form an association to deal with a recent outbreak of crime and vice.