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Abolitionism
Alexis de Tocqueville
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American Jews
Ancien Regime
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Authoritarianism
Bigotry
Bourbon Restoration
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Citizenship
Civil society
Culture and Society
Culture of France
De jure
Democracy
Democracy in America
Despotism
Edict
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Estates General (France)
Exclusion
Feudalism
French nationalism
French people
Girondins
Hostility
Ideology
Institution
Insurgency
Jacobin
Jewish emancipation
Jewish identity
Jewish studies
Jews
Judaism
Liberalism
Liberalism in the United States
Messianism
Military service
Modernity
Monarchism
Napoleonic Code
Nation state
National identity
Nationality
Naturalization
Patriotism
Persecution
Political culture
Politics
Prejudice
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Proscription
Protestantism
Racialism
Religion
Republic
Republicanism
Revolution
Secularism
Secularization
Sephardi Jews
Slavery
Sovereignty
State (polity)
State formation
Tax
The Other Hand
United States Constitution
Vichy France
Westphalian sovereignty
World War II
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- ISBN 9780691096490
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is the first systematic comparison of the civic integration of Jews in the United States and France--specifically, from the two countries' revolutions through the American republic and the Napoleonic era (1775-1815). Frederic Jaher develops a vehicle for a broader and uniquely rich analysis of French and American nation-building and political culture. He returns grand theory to historical scholarship by examining the Jewish encounter with state formation and Jewish acquisition of civic equality from the perspective of the "paradigm of liberal inclusiveness" as formulated by Alexis de Tocqueville and Louis Hartz. Jaher argues that the liberal paradigm worked for American Jews but that France's illiberal impulses hindered its Jewish population in acquiring full civic rights. He also explores the relevance of the Tocqueville-Hartz theory for other marginalized groups, particularly blacks and women in France and America. However, the experience of these groups suggests that the theory has its limits.
A central issue of this penetrating study is whether a state with democratic-liberal pretensions (America) can better protect the rights of marginalized enclaves than can a state with authoritarian tendencies (France). The Tocqueville-Hartz thesis has become a major issue in political science, and this book marks the first time it has been tested in a historical study. The Jews and the Nation returns a unifying theory to a discipline fragmented by microtopical scholarship.
Frederic Cople Jaher is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books, including "A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness: The Origins and Rise of Anti-Semitism in America".
