Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld
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Columbia University Press, 2019.
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English
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9780231547260
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Dominique Kalifa., & Dominique Kalifa|AUTHOR. (2019). Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld . Columbia University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dominique Kalifa and Dominique Kalifa|AUTHOR. 2019. Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld. Columbia University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dominique Kalifa and Dominique Kalifa|AUTHOR. Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld Columbia University Press, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dominique Kalifa, and Dominique Kalifa|AUTHOR. Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld Columbia University Press, 2019.
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