Ambassadors of Pleasure: Illicit Economies in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland, 1945-1960

“Ambassadors of Pleasure” examines the social and cultural history of ‘sin’ in the Detroit-Windsor border region during the post-World War II period. It employs the interrelated frameworks of “borderlands” and “vice” in order to identify the complex ways in which illicit economies shaped—and were sh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karibo, Holly
Other Authors: Bender, Daniel
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/34075