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Dominique Kalifa

Dominique Kalifa
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), and most recently, Vice, Crime and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld, now available from Columbia University Press.


The Spectacle of Degradation

A look at 19th century tours of the underworld and demi-monde, meant to outwardly shock and inwardly delight well-heeled tourists.

September 5, 2019  By Dominique Kalifa
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