For business & pleasure : red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933 / / Mara L. Keire
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| Autore: |
Keire Mara L (Mara Laura), <1967->
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| Titolo: |
For business & pleasure : red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933 / / Mara L. Keire
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.40973/09041 |
| Soggetto topico: | Red-light districts - United States - History - 20th century |
| Prostitution - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Vice control - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-224) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Her study extends into Prohibition and discusses the various effects that scattering vice and banning alcohol had on commercial nightlife. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | For business and pleasure |
| Titolo autorizzato: | For business & pleasure |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-9877-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910524669703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Studies in industry and society.