For business and pleasure
Subtitle: red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933
By: Mara Keire.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780801894138
Subjects: Red-light districts -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Prostitution -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Vice control -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "It's a wonderful life": red-light districts and anti-vice reform; title: Segregating vice, 1890-1909; title: The sporting world; title: Race, riots, and red-light districts, 1906-1910; title: The vice trust: a reinterpretation of the white slavery scare, 1907-1917; title: The war on vice; title: The syndicate: prohibition and the rise of organized crime; title: Conclusion: progressivism, prohibition, and policy options.