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by Keire, Mara L.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Studies in industry and society Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press, (Baltimore :) Physical details: xiv, 231 p. : ill.
Subject(s): Red-light districts -- United States -- History -- 20th century. | Prostitution -- United States -- History -- 20th century. | Vice control -- United States -- History -- 20th century. | Electronic books.
Year: 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-224) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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