Smugglers, bootleggers, and scofflaws : New York City and prohibition /

"With the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, 'drying up' New York City promised to be the greatest triumph of the proponents of Prohibition. Instead, the city remained the nation's greatest liquor market. Smugglers, Bootleggers, and Scofflaws focuses on liquor smuggling to tell...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lawson, Ellen NicKenzie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : Excelsior Editions, 2013.
Temas:
1900-1999
Prohibition > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Crime > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Criminals > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Smugglers > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Contrebandiers > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Crime
Criminals
Prohibition
Smugglers
Social conditions
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
New York (State) > New York
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • New York's Rum Row
  • Long Island, Brooklyn, Staten Island and New Jersey
  • Landfall Manhattan
  • The Broadway Mob
  • Scofflaw City
  • Unprecedented Repeal : the 21st Amendment
  • Manahachtanienk
  • Appendix: Selected Primary Documents.

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