For business & pleasure : red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933 / Mara L. Keire.
Keire, Mara L. (Mara Laura), 1967-
2010
HQ125.U6 K45 2010 (Mapit)
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Title For business & pleasure : red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933 / Mara L. Keire.
Author Keire, Mara L. (Mara Laura), 1967-
ISBN 9780801894138 (alk. paper)
0801894131 (alk. paper)
Imprint Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Language English
Description xiv, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HQ125.U6 K45 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.40973/09041
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Studies in industry and society.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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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