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For business & pleasure : red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933
- Author
- Keire, Mara L. (Mara Laura), 1967-
- Title
- For business & pleasure : red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933 / Mara L. Keire.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- Description
- xiv, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Variant title
- For business and pleasure
- Uniform series
- Studies in industry and society.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Clients of prostitutes--United States--20th century. Prostitution--United States--20th century.
- ISBN
- 9780801894138 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0801894131 (hbk. : alk. paper)