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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- ISBN: 1503600823
- ISBN: 9781503600829
- ISBN: 1503600157
- ISBN: 9781503600157
- ISBN: 1503600971
- ISBN: 9781503600973
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |