For Business and Pleasure : Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890-1933 /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Keire, Mara L. (Mara Laura), 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Series:Studies in industry and society.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Vice control > United States > History > 20th century.
Prostitution > United States > History > 20th century.
Red-light districts > United States > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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