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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953

RésuméEn 1247, avant la croisade, et jusqu'à sa mort en 1270, Louis IX fit recueillir les plaintes de ses sujets afin de réparer les torts de son administration. Pénitentielles, ces enquêtes étaient aussi des instruments de gouvernement, comme en attestent les enquêtes de restitution des usures juives. Les saisies générales des biens des créanciers juifs avaient rendu Louis IX coupable d'un recel d'autant plus peccamineux qu'il provenait d'une activité condamnée par l'Église et par le roi en personne : l'usure. Au nom de sa souveraineté sursesjuifs – les « juifs du roi » – et pour le salut de son âme, le roi entendit publiquement rendre à ses sujets ces biens mal acquis. La restitution des usures juives est une entreprise deconversionmultiple : Louis IX ne restitue qu'une partie des biens des juifs et convertit le reste à un usage pieux, la croisade. En rendant, il transforme également en salut ses exactions et tourne à son avantage le rejet que pouvaient inspirer les créanciers juifs. Ces enquêtes incarnent donc un art de gouverner singulier, mêlant contrainte et consentement, souveraineté et scrupule religieux : le « moment saint Louis ».

"The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict provides a comprehensive account of the postwar parliamentary and extra parliamentary far right in Italy. This book explores the ideology, movements and activism of the extreme right and neo-fascists. The recent victory in the Italian parliamentary elections of the 'post-fascist' party Fratelli d'Italia and its leader Giorgia Meloni highlights the importance of such research. The book examines why some of these movements participated with CIA-backing in the 'Strategy of Tension' in the years of the Cold War where terrorist actions aimed to keep Italy in NATO and prevent the Communist Party from coming to power while other extreme-right groups vehemently opposed this and what they considered the dangerous 'Americanization' of the country. It debunks the myth that there was a unified postwar fascist movement in Italy but instead excavates the complex battles within the extreme right as well as with their opponents from the left, and the authorities. This study is necessary to clarify the history and ideological dynamics of a political area still too often shrouded in mystery and whose geopolitical role is still poorly understood and generally underestimated. The analysis is contextualised in the present day by looking at the different perspectives of the Italian far right on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The book will be of interest to researchers of political history, the Cold War, and Italian history and politics"--

"There have been few studies of Canadian minority governments despite the fact that between 1957 and 2008, 9 of the 18 general federal elections produced minority governments. How such governments can manage to remain in power (viability) and gain support for their legislative proposals (effectiveness) has not been investigated thoroughly. Three theoretical perspectives (the rational choice tradition, new institutionalism, and the party politics and party systems approach) are used to examine the dynamics at play. Data for four minority governments (Diefenbaker 1957-58, Pearson 1963-65, Clark 1979-80, and Harper 2006-08) have been gathered from archival records, debates and votes in the House of Commons, autobiographies, third party accounts and earlier studies on minority governments. Viability and effectiveness would appear to depend on (1) bargaining power (interparty dynamics and intra-party cohesion) and (2) agenda control (House business, confidence tests and other institutional features). The study also stresses the importance of government concessions, and the capacity and skill of parliamentary actors in using the institutional and party system levers."--