For business & pleasure red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933 /

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Autore principale: Keire, Mara L. (Mara Laura), 1967-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Serie:Studies in industry and society.
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Sommario:
  • 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.