Vice, Crime, And Poverty: How The Western Imagination Invented The Underworld

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.

• | By (Author): Dominique Kalifa
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 26, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0231187432
• | ISBN-13: 9780231187435