: Dominique Kalifa
: Vice, Crime, and Poverty How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld
: Columbia University Press
: 9780231547260
: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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Vice, Crime, and Poverty traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. From the Parisian demimonde to Victorian squalor, from the slums of New York to the sewers of Buenos Aires, Dominique Kalifa deciphers the making of an image that has cast an enduring spell on its audience.

KalifaDominique: Dominique Kalifa is professor of History at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He is a specialist of the history of crime, social control, and mass culture in 19th and early 20th France and Europe. He is the author of several books including L'Encre et le sang. Récits de crimes et société à la Belle Époque (Fayard, 1995), Crime et culture au XIXe siècle (Perrin, 2005), and Les Bas-fonds. Histoire d'un imaginaire (Seuil, 2013).Dominique Kalifa is professor of history at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he is the director of the Center for Nineteenth-Century History. His many books include La véritable histoire de la 'Belle Époque' (2017).