Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld by Dominique Kalifa

Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld

Dominique Kalifa with Susan Emanuel (Translator)

296 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates--part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurki...

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