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In the Public Good? Censorship in New Zealand

Chris Watson and Roy Shuker, In the Public Good? Censorship in New Zealand. Palmerston North, NZ: Dunmore Press, 1998. ISBN 0 86469 305 2 (pb) 220pp NZ$39.95 Uploaded 1 March 2000 Censorship is such a wonderful subject for cultural historians because it is so revealingly symptomatic. Each “moral panic” that coalesces around particular subjects and objects points to more generalized …

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