{"product_id":"vice-crime-and-poverty-9780231187428","title":"Vice Crime and Poverty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVice, Crime, and Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDominique Kalifa is one of the best French cultural historians of his generation and a worthy successor to Alain Corbin at the Sorbonne. \u003ci\u003eVice, Crime, and Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e examines the urban ‘underworld,’ not in the twentieth-century sense of organized crime but as an imaginary shaped discursively in the nineteenth century by a widespread if morbid fascination with the apparent dangers of urban life. -- Edward Berenson, author of \u003ci\u003eEurope in the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a lively and fun read. More than tracing the evolution of living conditions of the poor and indigent, \u003ci\u003eVice, Crime, and Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e also represents an important contribution to the \u003ci\u003ehistoire des mentalités\u003c\/i\u003e, telling us how different eras viewed the poor in terms of social changes at those times. The transnational aspect greatly enhances this study, making it a significant contribution to the field by offering insights into both European and American history. -- Venita Datta, author of \u003ci\u003eHeroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France: Gender, Politics, and National Identity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKalifa is the leading historian still teaching and writing about modern French history in France. In \u003ci\u003eVice, Crime, and Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e, he shows how the lowest of the lower classes came to be represented by, or analogized with, indigenous colonized peoples. He offers interesting reflections on the successors of the inhabitants of the \u003ci\u003ebas-fonds\u003c\/i\u003e and the emergence of new designations for them, along with the internationalization of crime. Yet again, Kalifa provides much to discuss. -- John Merriman, author of \u003ci\u003eBallad of the Anarchist Bandits: The Crime Spree that Gripped Belle Epoque Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKalifa’s research is virtuosic, incorporating every type of source under the sun—poetry, sociology, films, popular songs, literature, journalism—and is endlessly entertaining. -- Hadley Suter * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eAn expertly drawn picture of a lost myth. . . . This accessible work should find ready use in the classroom and among a wide readership . . . interested in urban history, class, and nineteenth-century culture. * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eA rich book. . . . Kalifa makes the case for the abundant possibilities in study of the social imaginary. * Journal of Social History *\u003cbr\u003eKalifa extensively catalogs the language, imagery, and discursive forms in which the underworld has been evoked over time. * Journal of Modern History *\u003cbr\u003eIn theory, we've left those ideas behind. In practice, the poor, the mentally ill, and those classified as deviant are all still seen too often as a single stigmatized mass, to be cured, saved, policed, condescended to, and enjoyed as lurid entertainment by those who consider themselves their social superiors. * Pacific Standard *\u003cbr\u003eA blurring of any distinction between the place and the population runs throughout the texts Kalifa draws on, which include novels, police memoirs, newspaper articles by undercover reporters and pleas by social reformers. * Inside Higher Ed *\u003cbr\u003eThe breadth of insights contained in \u003ci\u003eVice, Crime, and Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e is breathtaking. . . . Engaging, methodologically sophisticated, and thought-provoking. * H-France *\u003cbr\u003eColorfully written, jargon free, and nicely translated, this volume suggests that every generation gets the underworld it needs. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eBeautiful book, rich of literature, anecdotes, stories. . . . Highly recommended. * Al Femminile *\u003cbr\u003eKalifa insightfully demonstrates how languages and vocabularies originating in the descriptions of the underworld by nineteenth-century contemporaries created inaccurate, misinformed, exaggerated, and sensationalized images of the poor and socially marginal. * Labor *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Advent of the Lower Depths\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. In the Den of Horror\u003cbr\u003e2. Courts of Miracles\u003cbr\u003e3. “Dangerous Classes”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Scenarios of Society’s Underside\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Empire of Lists\u003cbr\u003e5. The Disguised Prince\u003cbr\u003e6. The Grand Dukes’ Tour\u003cbr\u003e7. Poetic Flight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Ebbing of an Imaginary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Slow Eclipse of the Underworld\u003cbr\u003e9. Persistent Shadows\u003cbr\u003e10. Roots of Fascination\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400330027351,"sku":"9780231187428","price":75.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231187428.jpg?v=1730470407","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vice-crime-and-poverty-9780231187428","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}