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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
- Title
- The courtesan and the gigolo : the murders in the Rue Montaigne and the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris / Aaron Freundschuh.
- Author
- Freundschuh, Aaron
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- 258 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-1533
- ISBN
- 9781503600157
- 1503600157
- 9781503600829
- 1503600823
- LCCN
- 2016016070
- OCLC
- 946579995
- Author
- Freundschuh, Aaron, author.
- Title
- The courtesan and the gigolo : the murders in the Rue Montaigne and the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris / Aaron Freundschuh.
- Publisher
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-1533