ISBN:
9781469625225
,
1469625229
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Series Statement:
The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
Parallel Title:
Print version Sin city north
DDC:
306.0971332
Keywords:
Vice control History
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20th century
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Michigan
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Detroit
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Vice control History
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20th century
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Ontario
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Windsor
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Borderlands History
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20th century
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United States
;
Borderlands History
;
20th century
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Canada
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Vice control History 20th century
;
Vice control History 20th century
;
Borderlands History 20th century
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Borderlands History 20th century
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Borderlands History 20th century
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Vice control History 20th century
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Borderlands History 20th century
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Vice control History 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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HISTORY ; United States ; 20th Century
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Borderlands
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Moral conditions
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Vice control
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History
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Detroit (Mich.) Moral conditions
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History
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20th century
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Windsor (Ont.) Moral conditions
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History
;
20th century
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Canada
;
Michigan
;
Detroit
;
Ontario
;
Windsor
;
United States
;
History
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Windsor (Ont.) Moral conditions 20th century
;
History
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Detroit (Mich.) Moral conditions 20th century
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History
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Windsor (Ont.) Moral conditions 20th century
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History
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Detroit (Mich.) Moral conditions 20th century
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History
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Canada
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Michigan ; Detroit
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Ontario ; Windsor
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United States
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Electronic books
Abstract:
INTRODUCTION -- BUILDING THE 'DETROIT- WINDSOR FUNNEL' -- BORDER BROTHELS -- MAINLINING ALONG THE LINE -- SIN, SLUMS, AND SHADY CHARACTERS -- PROHIBITION, ENFORCEMENT, AND BORDER POLITICS -- CONCLUSION.
Abstract:
The early decades of the twentieth century sparked the Detroit-Windsor region's ascendancy as the busiest crossing point between Canada and the United States, setting the stage for socioeconomic developments that would link the border cities for years to come. As Holly M. Karibo shows, this border fostered the emergence of illegal industries alongside legal trade, rapid industrial development, and tourism. Tracing the growth of the two cities' cross-border prostitution and heroin markets in the late 1940s and the 1950s, Sin City North explores the social, legal, and national boundaries that emerged there and their ramifications. In bars, brothels, and dance halls, Canadians and Americans were united in their desire to cross racial, sexual, and legal lines in the border cities. Yet the increasing visibility of illicit economies on city streets -- and the growing number of African American and French Canadian women working in illegal trades -- provoked the ire of moral reformers who mobilized to eliminate them from their communities. This valuable study demonstrates that struggles over the meaning of vice evolved beyond definitions of legality; they were also crucial avenues for residents attempting to define productive citizenship and community in this postwar urban borderland
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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