Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and Empire in French and European Culture

379 Pages·2018·25.115 MB·English

by  Dorian Bell

Globalizing Race
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Globalizing Race
Antisemitism and Empire in French
and European Culture
Dorian Bell
northwestern university press ❘ evanston, illinois
this book is made possible by a collaborative grant
from the andrew w. mellon foundation.
Northwestern University Press
www.nupress.northwestern.edu
Copyright © 2018 by Northwestern University Press.
Published 2018. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Bell, Dorian, author.
Title: Globalizing race : anti-Semitism and empire in French and European
culture / Dorian Bell.
Other titles: FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
Description: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018. |
Series: FlashPoints
Identifiers: LCCN 2017022776 | ISBN 9780810136892 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN
9780810136885 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780810136908 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Antisemitism—France—History—19th century. |
Antisemitism—France—History—20th century. | Antisemitism—Political
aspects—France. | France—Ethnic relations.
Classification: LCC DS146.F8 B35 2018 | DDC 305.8924044--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017022776
For my parents, David and Martine

Contents
Introduction: Between Relationality and Scalarity 3
1. The Labor of Superfluity: Hannah Arendt, Empire,
and the Jews 36
2. Colonial Conspiracies: Racializing Jews in the Era of Empire 81
3. Men on Horseback (1): The Marquis de Morès, Nationalism,
and Imperial Space- Time 132
4. Men on Horseback (2): Melchior de Vogüé, Imperial
Regeneration, and the Dialectic of Determinism 179
5. Bigger Pictures: Anti-A ntisemitism and the Politics
of Scale 217
Acknowledgments 283
Notes 285
Bibliography 335
Index 353
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Globalizing Race