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Dominique Kalifa

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Dominique Kalifa (1957–2020) was professor of history and director of the Center for Nineteenth-Century History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne. His books include Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld (Columbia, 2019).

Venita Datta is professor of French at Wellesley College.

Dominique Kalifa Books

The Belle Époque book cover

The Belle Époque

Dominique Kalifa
Vice, Crime, and Poverty book cover

Vice, Crime, and Poverty

Dominique Kalifa
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