Exclusions: Practicing Prejudice in French Law and Medicine, 1920–1945 by Fette, Julie

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First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in black paper spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xi/314 pages."In the 1930s, the French Third Republic banned naturalized citizens from careers in law and medicine for up to ten years after they had obtained French nationality. In 1940, the Vichy regime permanently expelled all lawyers and doctors born of foreign fathers and imposed a 2 percent quota on Jews in both professions. On the basis of extensive archival research, Julie Fette shows in Exclusions that doctors and lawyers themselves, despite their claims to embody republican virtues, persuaded the French state to enact this exclusionary legislation. At the crossroads of knowledge and power, lawyers and doctors had long been dominant forces in French society: they ran hospitals and courts, doubled as university professors, held posts in parliament and government, and administered justice… Read More

CornellUP, 2012. 1. Hardcover. New/New.

Cornell University Press , pp. 328 Index. Hardback. Used.

Cornell Univ Pr, 2012. Hardcover. New. 328 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches.