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The courtesan and the gigolo : the murders in the Rue Montaigne and the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris
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The courtesan and the gigolo : the murders in the Rue Montaigne and the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris / Aaron Freundschuh.
ISBN
9781503600157
1503600157
9781503600829
1503600823
9781503600973
1503600971
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
Copyright Notice Date
©2017.
Physical Description
258 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Other formats
Online version: Freundschuh, Aaron, author. Courtesan and the gigolo Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 28, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Elite cosmopolitanism and gentrification in western Paris
The crime scene
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 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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