Assassination in Vichy Brunelle, Gayle K; Finley-Croswhite, S. Annette
Assassination in Vichy,
2020., 20200925, 2020, 2020-10-01, 2020-09-25
eBook
"During the night of July 25, 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of former French Interior Minister Marx Dormoy. The explosion of the bomb on the morning of July 26 launched a two-year ...investigation that traced Dormoy's murder to the highest echelons of the Vichy regime. Dormoy, who had led a 1937 investigation into the "Cagoule," a violent ultra-right-wing terrorist organization, was the victim of a captivating revenge plot. Based on the meticulous examination of thousands of documents, Assassination in Vichy tells the story of Dormoy's murder and of the investigation, led by courageous Police Superintendent Charles Chenevier, who persisted despite opposition from both Vichy and collaborationists in Paris. A book about France's deep political divisions, wartime choices, and post-war memory, Assassination in Vichy explores the impact of fascist extremism on France's history and explains why after the war none of Dormoy's assassins were punished for his murder. At the heart of this book lies the investigation of a true crime that was sensational in its day but overshadowed by the war. It is a microhistory that also tells a larger and more significant story about the development of far-right political movements, domestic terrorism, and the importance of courage."--
In the early 1920s literature was still seen as the most prominent manifestation of Slovak life. As such it was also recognized by Martin Rázus (1888 – 1937), who is in terms of literary history a ...writer with the status of a representative of the so-called transition generation, whose work maintains the continuity between the pre-war and the post-war situations. As of the year 1923 he used to write editorials for the Národnie noviny, in many of which he expressed his opinions on contemporary literature. The recurrent theme of his reflections was the notion of „national character“, which was developed within his own philosophical concept of Slovak nationalism. The notion in question was, however, strongly rejected by the following young generation, who saw it as an anachronism. In the situation of seeking new forms of poetics and movements Rázus revived the earlier concept of national literature defined by S. H. Vajanský (1847 – 1916), within the framework of which a poet or a writer played the role of a national revivalist, and represented the conscience and memory of the nation. Rázus was convinced that a writer had to bear responsibility for a collective, i.e. a nation. In his articles written between 1925 and 1930 he closely interconnected the issue of literature and the contemporary political and economic problems placing emphasis on the tradition, national autonomy and particularity.
Revenge Newman, Patrick
Public choice,
03/2018, Letnik:
174, Številka:
3/4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This paper argues that Senator John Sherman of Ohio was motivated to introduce an antitrust bill in late 1889 partly as a way of enacting revenge on his political rival, General and former Governor ...Russell Alger of Michigan, because Sherman believed that Alger personally had cost him the presidential nomination at the 1888 Republican national convention. When discussing his bill on the Senate floor and elsewhere, Sherman repeatedly brought up Alger’s relationship, which in reality was rather tenuous, with the well-known Diamond Match Company. The point of mentioning Alger was to hurt Alger’s future political career and his presidential aspirations in 1892. Sherman was able to pursue his revenge motive by combining it with the broader Republican goals of preserving high tariffs and attacking the trusts. As a result, this paper reinforces previous public choice literature arguing that the 1890 Sherman Act was not passed in the public interest, but instead advanced private interests.
Along the U.S.–Mexico frontier, where border crossings are a daily occurrence for many people, reinforcing borders is also a common activity. Not only does the U.S. Border Patrol strive to hold the ...line against illegal immigrants, but many residents on both sides of the border seek to define and bound themselves apart from groups they perceive as others. This pathfinding ethnography charts the social categories, metaphors, and narratives that inhabitants of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez use to define their group identity and distinguish themselves from others. Pablo Vila draws on over 200 group interviews with more than 900 area residents to describe how Mexican nationals, Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Anglos make sense of themselves and perceive their differences from others. This research uncovers the regionalism by which many northern Mexicans construct their sense of identity, the nationalism that often divides Mexican Americans from Mexican nationals, and the role of ethnicity in setting boundaries among Anglos, Mexicans, and African Americans. Vila also looks at how gender, age, religion, and class intertwine with these factors. He concludes with fascinating excerpts from re-interviews with several informants, who modified their views of other groups when confronted by the author with the narrative character of their identities.
Composition du jury : Alejandra Araya, Directrice de thèse, (Université du Chili ;Roger Chartier, Directeur de thèse, (ÉHESS) ;Carmen Bernand (Université Paris 10) ;Elisa Fernandez (Université du ...Chili) ;Manuel Garate (Université Alberto Hurtado) ;Bernardo Subercaseaux (Université du Chili). Thèse dirigée en cotutelle avec l’université du Chili, soutenue le 26 juin 2014, mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury à l’unanimité. Résumé : La problématique principale de cette thèse ch...
This paper presents the website of Archivo Digital Valle-Inclán/1888-1936 (www.archivodigitalvalleinclan.es). This is the final result of a project, within the framework of digital projects on The ...Silver Age of Spanish literature, which offers an author archive model, conceived not only as a digital library, but also as a powerful research tool. Main features, access, graphic design and web interface of this innovative digital platform are presented on these pages, as well as some case studies of hypothetical query and research. This website is devoted to the life and work of Ramón del Valle-Inclán, and it offers an open and free access to bibliographical, documentary, graphical and monographic files, provided by the GIVIUS (4.500 documents / 80.000 images). Its reception has been excellent according to the 50.000 visits recorded in six months. HDH Best Digital Tool Award 2018.
This groundbreaking book of literary detective work alters our understanding of T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece,The Waste Land. Lawrence Rainey not only resolves longstanding mysteries surrounding ...the composition of the poem but also overturns traditional interpretations of the poem that have prevailed for more than eighty years. He shines new light on Eliot's greatest achievement and on the poem's place in the modern canon.Far from the austere and sober monument to neoclassicism that admirers have praised,The Waste Landturns out to be something quite different: something grim and wild, unruly and intractable, violent and shocking and radically indeterminate, yet also deeply compassionate. Rainey looks at how Eliot went about writing the poem and at the sequence in which he composed the parts. Arriving at new insights into the poet's intentions, Rainey unsettles tradition-bound views of the poem and shows us thatThe Waste Landis even stranger and more startling than we knew.
In the light of the November 30th, 2018 (N30) earthquake activity, some neighborhoods of the city of Buenos Aires were shaken by a 3.8 mb earthquake (4.53 km estimated depth). We examined the ...historical and recent seismic records in order to analyze possible mechanisms related to the distribution of tectonic stresses as responsible for such unusual earthquakes in a region where only very little seismic activity is reported. According to this, at list one historical event occurred on June 5th, 1888 and other small magnitude earthquakes are mentioned since 1848 interpreted as being associated with the Rio de la Plata faulting. But there is, still no consensus about the role of this structure compared to other structures with orientation SW-NE. The lack of evidence to support one over the other structures makes it difficult to analyze these earthquakes. The presence of the Quilmes Trough connecting the Santa Lucía Basin in Uruguay and the Salado Basin in Argentina was recently proposed to play a tectonic role by a system of ENE-WSW trending controlled by extensional faulting related to the beginning of the Gondwana breakup. This depocenter with a thickness of almost 2,000 m of Mesozoic and Tertiary sequences could be acting as a zone of weakness in the crust and therefore responsible for the mentioned earthquake activity. The orientation of this structure correlates well with the present convergence vector between the Nazca and the South American plates and could therefore be propitious for strain release triggering shallow intraplate seismicity. We propose that most of the epicenters from historical and recent earthquakes might be aligned sub-parallel to the principal axis of the Quilmes Trough. Nevertheless, more data is needed to produce a reliable earthquake monitoring system in order to elucidate the tectonic stress regime and the existence of such structures at depth
It is generally agreed that neo-Orthodoxy in Germany began with the publication of Nineteen Letters on Judaism (1836) by Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888), his first book, and declined upon the ...disintegration of the community and its institutions on the eve of World War II. The main hypothesis of this essay is that, contrary to this claim, further development of neo-Orthodox thought can be seen in the State of Israel as well, as expressed by its adherents over some fifty years. It should be emphasized that we are not dealing here with a self-declared stream of neo-Orthodoxy in Eretz Israel; rather, analysis of the theological and Zionist thought of neo-Orthodox followers, together with similarities in their biographical and social background, raise the possibility of regarding them as a unique stream within religious Zionism during the Yishuv period and the early years following the establishment of the State of Israel.
The Zionist motivation of those adherents of modern neo-Orthodoxy, who, for the most part, immigrated to Eretz Israel in the 1930s and 1940s, stemmed primarily from a desire to transform Judaism in its Halakhic sense into the foremost component of the identity, culture, and lifestyle of Jewish society in Eretz Israel. This ideology, rooted in the philosophy of Halakha held by neo-Orthodoxy and by the historical-positivist stream, underlies the thought and activism of the figures discussed in this study, and set them apart from other religious streams during the Yishuv and early statehood period. However, the cultural atmosphere in Eretz Israel in the period from the early 1940s, when the concept of political independence acquired a practical dimension, to the late 1970s, when Israeli intellectual and social discourse began to change, put them at the forefront of the struggle over the national and cultural identity of Israeli society, against two opposing streams. The first of these was hard-line Orthodoxy and its rejection of any change in Halakhic ruling necessitated by the desire to make Halakhic Judaism the theological basis of modern Jewish society, while mystical and messianic trends which had taken over the center of religious Zionism were growing stronger. The second opposing stream was socialist Zionism, which constituted the Zionist leadership during the formative Yishuv and early statehood period. Socialist Zionism, inspired by the secular Jewish Enlightenment, basically sought to design a ‘new Jewish society’ founded upon the values of the tie to the land; the Hebrew language; and the Bible, in its socialist reading. It is clear that the different portrayal of Jewish society envisioned by followers of neo-Orthodoxy, on the one hand, and by socialist Zionism, on the other, set the two streams on an inevitable collision course.
When the figures discussed here immigrated to Eretz Israel during the 1930s, it marked a new phase in the development of neo-Orthodox thought, to a great extent; its adherents were now required to put the validity of their vision of ‘all-inclusive Halakha’ to the test. This attempt, discussed in the third section, is symbolized by their participation in the settlement enterprise of the religious kibbutz movement. As we know, the religious settlement movement did not comprise only German immigrants to Eretz Israel; these were joined by groups of Hasidim from Eastern Europe. However, it would seem that the uniqueness of the figures discussed here is reflected in the Halakhic motivation for their endeavors to establish religious settlements. Contrary to the Eastern European groups, who regarded physical labor and communing with nature as a means for achieving individual transcendence, the adherents of neo-Orthodoxy regarded religious settlement activity as an important experiment for determining whether Halakha could serve as the means for forming a modern Jewish community in Eretz Israel, as an initial phase toward applying this vision to society at large. However, since rabbinical authorities ignored the Halakhic modifications needed by religious farmers, and the movement lacked political influence, the religious kibbutz movement, after years of struggle, reconciled itself to maintaining only the communal structure. This process reflected the gradual decline of neo-Orthodoxy in Israel.
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