For business & pleasure [electronic resource] : red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933 / Mara L. Keire.

By: Keire, Mara L. (Mara Laura), 1967-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in industry and societyPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010Description: xiv, 231 p. : illOther title: For business and pleasureSubject(s): Red-light districts -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Prostitution -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Vice control -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.40973/09041 LOC classification: HQ125.U6 | K45 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-224) 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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