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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in industry and society | Book collections on Project MUSE | Studies in industry and societyManufacturer: Baltimore, Maryland : Project MUSE, 2012Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801898778
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ125
  • HQ125.P964.F673 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
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 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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