Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933 |
Author: |
KeireMara L., 1967- |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
Place of Publication: |
Baltimore |
Published: |
Johns Hopkins University Press; |
Year of Publication: |
2010 |
Description: |
1 online resource (xiv, 231 p.)ill. : |
Series: |
Studies in industry and society |
Subject: |
Vice control - History - United States - 20th century - |
Subject: |
Prostitution - History - United States - 20th century - |
Subject: |
Red-light districts - History - United States - 20th century - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780801898778/ |
Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: |
9780801898778electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
0801898773electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9780801894138hbk. |
ISBN: |
0801894131hbk. |
Content Note: |
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 |