Ideology & Experience - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0838630375 ISBN 13: 9780838630372

Publisher: Associated University Presses

In this analysis of racism in late nineteenth-century France, anti-Semitism is studied in its social context as an indicator and symptom of social change. The author provides a more general analysis of anti-Semitic ideology in France, and he concludes with a study of the Jewish response to this challenge.

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Review:

An unprecedentedly complete compendium of evidence . . . exceptionally well written. --The Observer

An excellent historical, sociological and psychological examination of anti-semitism . . . even those who believe they understand the mechanics of anti-semitism will benefit from a reading of this book. --Jerusalem Post

About the Author:

Stephen Wilson was formerly Reader in European History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Feuding, Conflict, and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica (1988), which won the Prix du Livre Corse, The Means of Naming: A Social and Cultural History of Personal Naming in Western Europe (1998), and The Magical Universe: Everyday Ritual and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe (2000).

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