Description

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

Trade Review
Keire's innovative and wide-ranging history makes For Business and Pleasure a welcome contribution to the field. -- Annemarie Kooistra Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2010 Keire's focus on the business of vice makes an important contribution. -- Jennifer Fronc American Historical Review 2011

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: It's a Wonderful Life: Red-Light Districts and Anti-Vice Reform
1. Segregating Vice, 1890–1909
2. The Sporting World, 1890–1917
3. Race, Riots, and Red-Light Districts, 1906–1910
4. The Vice Trust: A Reinterpretation of the White Slavery Scare, 1907–1917
5. The War on Vice, 1910–1919
6. The Syndicate: Prohibition and the Rise of Organized Crime, 1919–1933
Conclusion: Progressivism, Prohibition, and Policy Options
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

For Business and Pleasure RedLight Districts and

    Product form

    £45.90

    Includes FREE delivery

    RRP £54.00 – you save £8.10 (15%)

    Order before 4pm tomorrow for delivery by Wed 8 Jul 2026.

    A Hardback by Mara Laura Keire

    1 in stock

      Trusted by thousands of customers. See 2,385+ Customer Reviews

      View other formats and editions of For Business and Pleasure RedLight Districts and by Mara Laura Keire

      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 26/04/2010
      ISBN13: 9780801894138, 978-0801894138
      ISBN10: 0801894131

      Description

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

      Trade Review
      Keire's innovative and wide-ranging history makes For Business and Pleasure a welcome contribution to the field. -- Annemarie Kooistra Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2010 Keire's focus on the business of vice makes an important contribution. -- Jennifer Fronc American Historical Review 2011

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: It's a Wonderful Life: Red-Light Districts and Anti-Vice Reform
      1. Segregating Vice, 1890–1909
      2. The Sporting World, 1890–1917
      3. Race, Riots, and Red-Light Districts, 1906–1910
      4. The Vice Trust: A Reinterpretation of the White Slavery Scare, 1907–1917
      5. The War on Vice, 1910–1919
      6. The Syndicate: Prohibition and the Rise of Organized Crime, 1919–1933
      Conclusion: Progressivism, Prohibition, and Policy Options
      Notes
      Essay on Sources
      Index

      Recently viewed products

      © 2026 Book Curl

        • American Express
        • Apple Pay
        • Diners Club
        • Discover
        • Google Pay
        • Maestro
        • Mastercard
        • PayPal
        • Shop Pay
        • Union Pay
        • Visa

        Login

        Forgot your password?

        Don't have an account yet?
        Create account