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Beteen Justice and Politics The Ligue des Droits de l&146Homme, 1898-1945 [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (History)
  • Author:  Irvine, William
  • Author:  Irvine, William
  • ISBN-10:  0804753172
  • ISBN-10:  0804753172
  • ISBN-13:  9780804753173
  • ISBN-13:  9780804753173
  • Publisher:  Stanford University Press
  • Publisher:  Stanford University Press
  • Pages:  288
  • Pages:  288
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Nov-2006
  • Pub Date:  01-Nov-2006
  • SKU:  0804753172-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0804753172-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100165360
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Between Justice and Politicsis a history of the first fifty years of theLigue des droits de l'Hommethe League of the Rights of Man. This is the first book-length study of theLiguein any language, and it is informed by the recently available archives of the organization. Founded during the Dreyfus Affair, theLiguetook as its mandate the defense of human rights in all their forms. The central argument of this bookand the point on which it differs from all other writings on the subjectis that theLigueoften failed to live up to its mandate because of its simultaneous commitment to left-wing politics. By the late 1930s theLiguewas in disarray, and by the 1940s a number of its members opted to defend the Vichy regime of Marshal Petain.

[Alfred Dreyfus's] vindication permitted the League [of the Rights of Man/Ligue des Droits de l'Homme] to portray itself during the succeeding four decades as the Third Republic's bastion of defense for human and civil rights, indeed as the 'conscience of democracy.' Most historians have concurred in this vainglorious description. William D. Irvine does not, and skillfully dissectsone is tempted to write 'eviscerates'this legend... His telling of this sorry story is a superb model of monographic history. William D. Irvine is Professor of History at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is author ofFrench Conservatism in Crisis: The Republican Federation of France in the 1930s(1979) andThe Boulanger Affair Reconsidered: Royalism, Boulangism and the Origins of the Radical Right in France(1989).Between Justice and Politicsis a critical and dissenting interpretation of the Ligue des Droits de l'Homme. In this pleasing clothbound volume, William D. Irvine demonstrates his encyclopedic knowledge of this important institution... This is, after all, apparently the first full-length book study of theLiguein any language. So as a resource for instructors lU
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