For business & pleasure red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933

Her study extends into Prohibition and discusses the various effects that scattering vice and banning alcohol had on commercial nightlife.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Keire, Mara L. 1967- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press 2010.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Studies in industry and society.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423005606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.