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Article: Forth, Christopher E. The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood.(Book Review)
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- History: Review of New Books
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- September 22, 2004
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Forth, Christopher E. The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 296 pp., $46.95, ISBN 0-8018-7433-5 Publication Date: February 2004
Christopher Forth, a senior lecturer in history at Australian National University, has written in The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood a dense and difficult book, one that, however, is more than worth the effort that its reading requires. In some ways, the title is a bit misleading, as the book is considerably more about the Dreyfus Affair's catalytic effect on French perceptions and definitions of manhood and its relation to the tension between often-denigrated ...