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Dominique Kalifa

Dominique Kalifa
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).


On the Dancing Craze That
Swept Post-WWI Paris

Dominique Kalifa on the Very French “Appetite for Living”
July 6, 2021  By Dominique Kalifa
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