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Download or read book Dreyfus written by Ruth Harris and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the infamous scandal that shook a nation and stunned the world In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany and imprisoned on Devil's Island. Over the following years, attempts to correct this injustice tore France apart, inflicting wounds on the society which have never fully healed. But how did a fairly obscure miscarriage of justice come to break up families in bitterness, set off anti-Semitic riots across the French empire, and nearly trigger a coup d'état? How did a violently reactionary, obscurantist attitude become so powerful in a country that saw itself as the home of enlightenment? Why did the battle over a junior army officer occupy the foremost writers and philosophers of the age, from Émile Zola to Marcel Proust, Émile Durkheim, and many others? What drove the anti-Dreyfusards to persist in their efforts even after it became clear that much of the prosecution's evidence was faked? Drawing upon thousands of previously unread and unconsidered sources, prizewinning historian Ruth Harris goes beyond the conventional narrative of truth loving democrats uniting against proto-fascists. Instead, she offers the first in-depth history of both sides in the Affair, showing how complex interlocking influences—tensions within the military, the clashing demands of justice and nationalism, and a tangled web of friendships and family connections—shaped both the coalition working to free Dreyfus and the formidable alliances seeking to protect the reputation of the army that had convicted him. Sweeping and engaging, Dreyfus offers a new understanding of one of the most contested and significant moments in modern history.
Book Synopsis The Tragedy of Dreyfus by : George Warrington Steevens
Download or read book The Tragedy of Dreyfus written by George Warrington Steevens and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood by : Christopher E. Forth
Download or read book The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood written by Christopher E. Forth and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, he examines the relation of the Dreyfus Affair to the culture of forcethat marked French society during the prewar years, thus accounting for the rise of the youthful athlete as a more compelling manly ideal than the bookish and sedentary intellectual.
Book Synopsis Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940 by : Anne Summers
Download or read book Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940 written by Anne Summers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an entirely new contribution to the history of multiculturalism in Britain, 1880-1940. It shows how friendship and co-operation between Christian and Jewish women changed lives and, as the Second World War approached, actually saved them. The networks and relationships explored include the thousand-plus women from every district in Manchester who combined to send a letter of sympathy to the Frenchwoman at the heart of the Dreyfus Affair; the religious leagues for women’s suffrage who initiated the first interfaith campaigning movement in British history; the collaborations, often problematic, on refugee relief in the 1930s; the close ties between the founder of Liberal Judaism in Britain, and the wife of the leader of the Labour Party, between the wealthy leader of the Zionist women’s movement and a passionate socialist woman MP. A great variety of sources are thoughtfully interrogated, and concluding remarks address some of the social concerns of the present century.
Book Synopsis The Dreyfus Affair in French Society and Politics by : Eric Cahm
Download or read book The Dreyfus Affair in French Society and Politics written by Eric Cahm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dreyfus affair remains one of the most famous miscarriages of justice in modern times. Eric Cahm's study does justice to the human drama, whilst also throwing light on the wider society and politics of the Third Republic in the traumatic years after the Franco-Prussian War. This wide-ranging survey - the only short modern account in English anchors the Affair in its full social and political context. Organised round a narrative of events, it offers portraits of all the main characters, substantial extracts from key sources in fresh translations, a comprehensive bibliography and a detailed chronology.
Book Synopsis The Dreyfus Affair and the Rise of the French Public Intellectual by : Tom Conner
Download or read book The Dreyfus Affair and the Rise of the French Public Intellectual written by Tom Conner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While countless books have chronicled the wrongful conviction of French military officer Alfred Dreyfus, his ensuing trials, and his eventual exoneration, this distinctive volume examines France's Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906) with a critical eye, analyzing the actions of its main protagonists, the rise of the public intellectual, and the Affair's continued relevance. After a brief overview of the events to establish the poisoned ideological climate of the day, the work explores how intellectuals like Bernard Lazare, Emile Zola, and others contributed to the Affair, defining both it and themselves in the process. With mini-portraits of the key players and a detailed chronology, this telling book combines rigorous scholarship with cultural commentary to demonstrate the continued relevance of the example set by Dreyfus and his many supporters.
Book Synopsis Classified Catalogue by : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Download or read book Classified Catalogue written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by : Jean-Denis Bredin
Download or read book The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus written by Jean-Denis Bredin and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published by Plunkett Lake Press and George Braziller, Inc. On an autumn morning in 1894, Captain Dreyfus was summoned to appear for a routine inspection; instead, as he took down a letter dictated by a senior officer, he was summarily accused of high treason. So began a twelve-year series of events that included his imprisonment on Devil’s Island, the publication of Emile Zola’s passionateJ’Accuse, the Rennes retrial, and the pardon and final rehabilitation of 1906. As the Dreyfus case turned into the Affair, the history of a single military career came to display the conflicts that were tearing France apart: military defeat, anti-Semitic furor, and the place of traditional values in a country still reeling from the turbulence of the French Revolution. Told with an historian’s insight and a novelist’s skill, The Affairmakes fascinating and informative reading about one of the most celebrated episodes in modern history. “There have been many books about the Dreyfus Affair, but Jean-Denis Bredin's book is one of the best of them — lucid, well-organized, informed by a fine sense of drama.” — John Gross, The New York Times “[a] critically acclaimed study” — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “If one is limited to a single book about the Dreyfus case and its consequences, this should be it. Bredin has told this story with precision, passion, and a vivid sense of character.” — The New York Review of Books “A brilliant and fascinating book. What is most remarkable about The Affair is the skill and sensitivity with which the author places it in its essential historical setting. It is also a gripping — though terrible — story superbly told.” — The Atlantic “This is the most judicious and absorbing account to date of the Dreyfus Case.” — The Boston Globe “This is certainly the best book on the Dreyfus case now available in the English language.” — San Francisco Examiner “Bredin is crystal clear in his gripping narrative of the complex case. His tapestry glows with all the color of the Belle Epoque and its extravagances.” — Chicago Sun-Times “There have been other books on the Affair, but I can’t imagine any of them coming even close to Bredin’s work. He is brilliant at placing the myriad elements of the Affair in context with verve and lucidity. It should be a model for future historians.” — San Francisco Chronicle
Book Synopsis Fields of Adventure by : Ernest Smith
Download or read book Fields of Adventure written by Ernest Smith and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Dreyfus and the Shame of France, Including the Views of Zangwill, Zola and Other Famous Writers, Scholars and Statesmen by : Charles McClellan Stevens
Download or read book Dreyfus and the Shame of France, Including the Views of Zangwill, Zola and Other Famous Writers, Scholars and Statesmen written by Charles McClellan Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Victorian Jews Through British Eyes by : Anne Cowen
Download or read book Victorian Jews Through British Eyes written by Anne Cowen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1986-12-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reproduces, with commentary, pictures from Victorian illustrated magazines such as "Punch", "The Illustrated London News", and "The Graphic", to show how Jewish subjects were presented to Victorian readers.
Book Synopsis Proust, a Jewish Way by : Antoine Compagnon
Download or read book Proust, a Jewish Way written by Antoine Compagnon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcel Proust once wrote, “There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather, following a custom that he never understood, went for so many years to lay a stone on his parents’ grave.” Investigating the origin and significance of this statement, Antoine Compagnon offers new insight into the great author’s underappreciated Jewish side. Compagnon traces Proust’s ties to the French Jewish community, examining his relations with his mother’s successful and assimilated family, the Weils. He explores how French Jews read and responded to Proust’s masterpiece In Search of Lost Time in the 1920s and 1930s. Challenging contemporary critics who perceive self-hatred or even antisemitism in Proust’s work, Compagnon shows that many Jewish intellectuals and young Zionists admired and vigorously debated the novel, some seeing it as a source for pride in their Jewish identity. He also considers Proust’s portrayal of homosexuality and how it relates to notions of Jewishness. A work of remarkable erudition and deep research, Proust, a Jewish Way brings to light the vanished world of Proust’s first Jewish readers and shows how it can illuminate our reading of the great novelist today.
Book Synopsis The Conviction of the Innocent by : Chester Porter Qc
Download or read book The Conviction of the Innocent written by Chester Porter Qc and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attorney Porter has clocked countless courtroom triumphs during his career. Passionate about notable cases of wrongful conviction, he is a senior member of the National Institute of Forensic Science.
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Book Synopsis The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot by : Thomas Maeder
Download or read book The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot written by Thomas Maeder and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chilling true story of a serial killer who preyed on men, women, and children desperate to escape Nazi-occupied Paris. On March 11, 1944, police were called to investigate foul-smelling smoke pouring from the chimney of an elegant private house near the Arc de Triomphe. In the basement of 21 rue Le Sueur, they made the first of many gruesome discoveries: a human hand dangling from the open door of a coal-burning stove. Proceeding to the rear of the home, detectives found rib cages, skulls, and internal organs strewn across the floor and large piles of quicklime mixed with fragments of bone and flesh. The Gestapo had two offices in the neighborhood—were Hitler’s henchmen responsible for the carnage? Or was it the work of French Resistance fighters purging Paris of traitors and German spies? As the investigation unfolded, a more sinister possibility emerged. The building’s owner, Dr. Marcel Petiot, was a handsome and charismatic physician whose past was littered with bizarre behavior and criminal activity. When he was finally captured eight months later, Dr. Petiot claimed he was a loyal member of the Resistance who helped kill Nazi collaborators. Prosecutors charged that he was a sadistic mass murderer who lured at least twenty-seven innocent people to their deaths with promises of escape. Estimates of the actual number of his victims ran as high as 150 men, women, and children. From the first stages of the investigation to the sensational trial in which Dr. Petiot’s superior intelligence and perverse wit were on full display, author Thomas Maeder meticulously reconstructs one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating and lurid murder cases. Drawing on classified police files and interviews with surviving participants, The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot is a riveting true crime saga that that “reads like a shocking psychological thriller” (Newsweek).
Book Synopsis France From 1851 to the Present by : R. Célestin
Download or read book France From 1851 to the Present written by R. Célestin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together history, literature, and popular culture, this book provides a cultural history of France from a period of dominance in the mid-19th century to one of decline or crisis in the first few years of the third millennium. Contains both chronological narrative and a selection of primary documents in translation.
