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For Business and Pleasure : Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933 / by Keire, Mara L. (Mara Laura), 1967-

Table of Contents: “…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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