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Autore: | Keire Mara L (Mara Laura), <1967-> |
Titolo: | For business & pleasure : red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933 / / Mara L. Keire |
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 |
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