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Expertly demonstrates the ways in which images of prostitutes and drug dealers were used in political discourse in Canada and the United States. . . . Complicates a transnational story that is often oversimplified and overlooked. --<i>Michigan Historical Review</i>

Expertly demonstrates the ways in which images of prostitutes and drug dealers were used in political discourse in Canada and the United States. . . . Complicates a transnational story that is often oversimplified and overlooked. --Michigan Historical Review Karibo's writing is engaging, her reasoning is solid, and her conclusions make an important contribution to the histories of drugs and alcohol, the sex industry, cross-border trade, tourism, and early twentieth century changes to national identity, racial politics, and transborder economies.--Canadian Journal of History Makes a unique contribution to the expanding field of northern borderland studies through the perspective of the vice economies of the mid-twentieth century. . . . a valuable read for students, scholars, and a general public interested in local history and in the borderland history of vice and its meaning in the postwar urban border.--Journal of the History of Sexuality

Expertly demonstrates the ways in which images of prostitutes and drug dealers were used in political discourse in Canada and the United States. . . . Complicates a transnational story that is often oversimplified and overlooked. --Michigan Historical Review

Karibo's writing is engaging, her reasoning is solid, and her conclusions make an important contribution to the histories of drugs and alcohol, the sex industry, cross-border trade, tourism, and early twentieth century changes to national identity, racial politics, and transborder economies.--Canadian Journal of History Expertly demonstrates the ways in which images of prostitutes and drug dealers were used in political discourse in Canada and the United States. . . . Complicates a transnational story that is often oversimplified and overlooked. --Michigan Historical Review

"Expertly demonstrates the ways in which images of prostitutes and drug dealers were used in political discourse in Canada and the United States. . . . Complicates a transnational story that is often oversimplified and overlooked."" --Michigan Historical Review Karibo's writing is engaging, her reasoning is solid, and her conclusions make an important contribution to the histories of drugs and alcohol, the sex industry, cross-border trade, tourism, and early twentieth century changes to national identity, racial politics, and transborder economies.--Canadian Journal of History Makes a unique contribution to the expanding field of northern borderland studies through the perspective of the vice economies of the mid-twentieth century. . . . a valuable read for students, scholars, and a general public interested in local history and in the borderland history of vice and its meaning in the postwar urban border.--Journal of the History of Sexuality"

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Holly M. Karibo is assistant professor of history at Tarleton State University, USA.

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