Keire, Mara L. 1967-

For business & pleasure red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933 / [electronic resource] : For business and pleasure Mara L. Keire. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. - xiv, 231 p. : ill. - Studies in industry and society . - Studies in industry and society. .

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Red-light districts--History--United States--20th century.
Prostitution--History--United States--20th century.
Vice control--History--United States--20th century.


Electronic books.

HQ125.U6 / K45 2010

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