France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Brief Documentary History: A Documentary History - Brossura

Burns, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0312111673 ISBN 13: 9780312111670

Casa editrice: Bedford/st Martins, 1998

Riassunto

02 The Dreyfus affair — the infamous account of Jewish army officer and French citizen, Alfred Dreyfus, unjustly convicted of treason in 1894 — was the most significant political and social crisis of fin-de-siècle Europe. In the first book designed to introduce students to the broad outlines and significant legacies of the affair, the author deftly interweaves text with documents, tracing the course of events. He highlights the many issues connected with the case, including anti-Semitism, militant nationalism, socialism, the birth of modern Zionism, and the separation of church and state. Sixty-six documents are embedded in the narrative, offering students a broad range of sources to examine, including newspaper editorials, letters, trial testimony, and diary entries. A list of the principal characters is included in the appendices.

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L'autore:

Michael Burns (Ph.D., Yale University) is professor of modern European history at Mount Holyoke College and has taught at Yale University and the École des Hautes Études. His publications on the Dreyfus affair include Rural Society and French Politics: Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair (1984) and Dreyfus: A Family Affair, from the French Revolution to the Holocaust (1992), which was awarded the Prix Bernard Lecache of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism. Burns serves as advisory editor for the Blackwell series New Perspectives on the Past.

Contenuti:

Foreword
Preface
The Epoch
The Arrest
Trial and Exile
Treasons and Stratagems
J'Accuse
High Courts
The World's Affair
Encores and Legacies
Appendices
Chronology of Events Related to the Dreyfus Affair
Biographical Sketches
Selected Bibliography
Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bedford/st Martins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312111673
• ISBN 13: 9780312111670
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224