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For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933
Mara Laura Keire
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Hardback. Her study extends into Prohibition and discusses the various effects that scattering vice and banning alcohol had on commercial nightlife. Series: Studies in Industry and Society. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBTB; JFMX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
Mara L. Keire's history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s through the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Anti-vice reformers in the late nineteenth century accepted that complete eradication of disreputable pleasure was impossible. Seeking a way to regulate rather than eliminate prostitution, alcohol, drugs, and gambling, urban reformers confined sites of disreputable pleasure to red-light districts in cities throughout the United States. They dismissed the extremes of prohibitory law and instead sought to limit the impact of vice on city life through realistic restrictive measures. Keire's ... Read more
Mara L. Keire's history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s through the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Anti-vice reformers in the late nineteenth century accepted that complete eradication of disreputable pleasure was impossible. Seeking a way to regulate rather than eliminate prostitution, alcohol, drugs, and gambling, urban reformers confined sites of disreputable pleasure to red-light districts in cities throughout the United States. They dismissed the extremes of prohibitory law and instead sought to limit the impact of vice on city life through realistic restrictive measures. Keire's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Industry and Society
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801894138
SKU
V9780801894138
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About Mara Laura Keire
Mara L. Keire is part of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford.
Reviews for For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933
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
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