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COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Friendship in Post-Revolutionary France -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Sentimental Education of the Political -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: The Politics of Anomie -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: Friends with Benefits -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Post-Revolutionary Social Networks -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: The Politics of Male Friendship -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: The Bonds of Concord: Women and Politics -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Epilogue -- Notes to Epilogue -- Appendix A: Béranger, Chateaubriand, Guizot, and Their Friends -- Appendix B: Detailed Social Networks in the 1820s and 1840s -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- COVER Back.

When the duc de Choiseul-Praslin, a politician and prominent member of the French aristocracy, killed his wife and then poisoned himself in August 1847, the case shook the foundations of the July Monarchy. In the wake of the affair, conservatives used the murder/suicide to argue that love was a respect for hierarchy, while those on the left saw violence and anomie as stemming from inequality. However, both sides saw women's affections as crucial to public life and social cohesion. This article thus situates the Choiseul-Praslin affair within the politics of affection and family life in mid-nineteenth-century France.

In Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France, Horowitz brings together the political and cultural history of post-revolutionary France to show how French society responded to and recovered from the upheaval of the French Revolution. The Revolution led to a heightened sense of distrust and divided the nation along ideological lines. In the wake of the Terror, many began to express concerns about the atomization of French society. Friendship was regarded as one bond that could restore trust and cohesion. Because trust and cohesion were necessary to post-revolutionary parliamentary life, politicians turned to friends and ideas about friendship to create solidarity. Relying on detailed analyses of politicians' social networks, new tools from the digital humanities, and examinations of behind-the-scenes political transactions, Horowitz makes clear the connection between politics and emotions in the early nineteenth century, and reevaluates the role of women in political life.

Aux xvii e et xviii e siècles, les diamants étaient des biens de consommation aux significations multiples. Forme de la consommation ostentatoire, les bijoux scellaient aussi les relations Amoureuses. Ils n'étaient pas seulement un symbole de richesse, mais la richesse elle-même. En tant que monnaie qui pouvait être transmise et héritée, les bijoux étaient utilisés par les femmes pour contourner la primogéniture et les restrictions légales sur leurs droits à la propriété. Cependant, cet espace marginal pouvait aussi représenter un danger pour elles, comme Marie-Antoinette devait le découvrir durant l'affaire du collier de la Reine. Recevoir ou offrir des bijoux permettait aux femmes de posséder quelque contrôle sur la propriété, mais pouvait aussi les mettre en péril, précisément parce que les diamants étaient utilisés dans des cadres affectifs, sexuels et économiques.

This article argues that performing the recovery of pacifist art and actions through archival research of the modernist era encourages students to engage in radical ethical inquiry. Based on four sections of a writing class at Haverford College, this article walks the reader through the construction of a student digital humanities and special collections exhibition, Testimonies in Art & Action: Igniting Pacifism in the Face of Total War, which ran from October 6 to December 11, 2015 in Haverford College's Magill Library. The exhibition placed archival materials in conversation with the major modernist pacifist documentary projects of Langston Hughes's Spanish Civil War poetry and dispatches, Muriel Rukeyser's "Mediterranean," Pablo Picasso's Guernica, and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas. This undertaking was driven by the questions, "How does one respond ethically to total war?" and "How can archival and special collections research do the works of peace?" Built around the work of these classes and materials from Haverford's Quaker & Special Collections, Testimonies in Art & Action allowed students to deeply interrogate a variety of pacifisms and become producers of a critical discourse that challenges the status quo position that violence is perpetually necessary and the most important aspect of world history.

This profoundly informed volume provides the first in-depth overview of Jewish assessments of the evolving Nazi Judenpolitik in the early years of World War II. Jürgen Matthäus showcases the perceptive reports compiled by two Geneva-based offices, among the first to predict the threat to millions of Jews with the rising tide of Nazi rule in Europe.