The courtesan and the gigolo: the murders in the Rue Montaigne and the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris
From Widows' Allée to Avenue Montaigne : elite cosmopolitanism and gentrification in western Paris -- The crime scene : gathering the evidence and searching for a motive -- A reporter's ambition : George Grison and the rise of investigative crime reporting in Paris -- The courtesan's...
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
[2017]
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| In: | Jahr: 2017 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | From Widows' Allée to Avenue Montaigne : elite cosmopolitanism and gentrification in western Paris -- The crime scene : gathering the evidence and searching for a motive -- A reporter's ambition : George Grison and the rise of investigative crime reporting in Paris -- The courtesan's objects : sexual danger and the high life of the demimonde -- Colonial picaresque : the trans-Mediterranean investigation of a colonial migrant -- Criminal detection as colonial war by other means : investigative claims on the Latin-American "rastaquouère" -- The trial of a gigolo : intimacy, foreignness, and the Boulangist crisis -- The skin affair : punishment and the colonial body -- Conclusion : on imperial insecurity |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 258 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781503600157 9781503600829 |