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.
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