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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in industry and society | Studies in industry and society | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (248 pages): illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421427690
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.40973/09041 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ125.U6 K45 2010
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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 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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