Vice, crime, and poverty : how the Western imagination invented the underworld / Dominique Kalifa ;...
Vice, crime, and poverty : how the Western imagination invented the underworld / Dominique Kalifa ;...
Vice, crime, and poverty : how the Western imagination invented the underworld / Dominique Kalifa ; translated by Susan Emanuel ; foreword by Sarah Maza.
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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G 2020/1761
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 278 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
In the den of horror -- Courts of miracles -- "Dangerous classes" -- Empire of lists -- The disguised prince -- The grand dukes' tour -- Poetic flight -- Ebbing of an imaginary -- Slow eclipse of the underworld -- Persistent shadows -- Roots of fascination.
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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New York (State)
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
"Prostitutes, criminals, and the sordid, dangerous places they inhabit have always been with us. Yet there has not always been an "underworld," or what the French call "les bas-fonds." This expression, which appeared in most western languages in the 19th century, reveals a new way of looking at these social ills and raises a key historical question...
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Vice, crime, and poverty : how the Western imagination invented the underworld / Dominique Kalifa ; translated by Susan Emanuel ; foreword by Sarah Maza.
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European perspectives
"First published in French as Bas-fonds: Histoire d'un imaginaire ©2013 Editions du Seuil"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Translated from the French.
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©2019
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G 2020/1761
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74VKaDEZZyzX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaDEZZyzX
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ISBN
9780231187428
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305.569091732
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991024298708102626
