For Business and Pleasure [electronic resource] : Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933 / Mara L. Keire.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in industry and society | Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 231 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780801898778
- 0801898773
- 363.40973/09041 22
- HQ125.U6 K45 2010
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Online Resource | Nash Digital Library | Not For Loan |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: It's a wonderful life: red-light districts and anti-vice reform -- Segregating vice, 1890-1909 -- The sporting world, 1890-1917 -- Race, riots, and red-light districts, 1906-1910 -- The vice trust: a reinterpretation of the white slavery scare, 1907-1917 -- The war on vice, 1910-1919 -- The syndicate: prohibition and the rise of organized crime, 1919-1933 -- Conclusion: progressivism, prohibition, and policy options.
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