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Dreyfus : politics, emotion, and the scandal of the century
Man on Devil's Island
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Prizewinning historian Ruth Harris offers the first in-depth history of both sides in the 1894 Dreyfus Affair, showing how complex interlocking influences--tensions within the military, the clashin...
Prizewinning historian Ruth Harris offers the first in-depth history of both sides in the 1894 Dreyfus 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 Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus and the formidable alliances seeking to protect the reputation of the army that had convicted him.
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- Creator
- Ruth Harris
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First U.S. edition
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 541 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780805074710, 0805074716
- OCLC
- ocn430839724
- "Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2010 as The man on Devil's Island by Allen Lane, London"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-[524]) and index.
- Pt. 1. Trial and errors -- Degradation -- Family and friends -- France, Germany, and the Jewish community -- The Alsatian connection -- Zola -- pt. 2. Intellectuals and anti-intellectuals -- The polemic begins -- Dreyfusard contradictions -- "Anti-intellectuals" : Catholics and the occult -- Dreyfusards and the Judaeo-Christian tradition -- Mother-love and nationalism : Maurice Barrès and Jules Soury -- pt. 3. Movements and mystiques -- Anti-Dreyfusard movements and martyrology -- The Dreyfusard mystique -- Salonnières left and right -- Rightist illusions -- pt. 4. The end of the affair -- Alfred returns -- The trial and its aftermath -- Aftershocks -- The politics of rehabilitation
Subjects
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935.
- Scandals -- France -- History -- 19th century.
- Political culture -- France -- History -- 19th century.
- Antisemitism -- France -- History -- 19th century.
- Jews -- France -- Biography.
- Intellectuals -- France -- Biography.
- Treason -- France -- History -- 19th century.
- Trials (Treason) -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century.
- France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940.
- France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.