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the murders in the Rue Montaigne and the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.