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For Business and Pleasure Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Mara L. Keire
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0801894131, 9780801898778, 0801898773, 9781421427690, 9780801894138
- OCLC
- ocn649906432, ocn923195049
- Open Access
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 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