Description
Product ID: | 9780231187435 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism |
Title: | Vice, Crime, and Poverty |
Subtitle: | How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld |
Authors: | Author: Dominique Kalifa, Susan Emanuel |
Page Count: | 296 |
Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Popular culture, Poverty and precarity, Urban communities, Crime and criminology, Popular culture, Poverty & unemployment, Urban communities, Crime & criminology, Western Continental Europe |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | Columbia University Press |
Publisher Name: | Columbia University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-10-26 |