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

Keire, Mara L. 1967-,

For Business and Pleasure Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890-1933 / [print] Mara L. Keire. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) : illustrations ; - Studies in industry and society . - Book collections on Project MUSE. Studies in industry and society. .

Includes bibliographies 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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Prostitution--History--United States--20th century.
Red-light districts--History--United States--20th century.
Vice control--History--United States--20th century.

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