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“In Denaturalized, Claire Zalc combines the precision of the scholar with the passion of a storyteller...This is a deftly written book. Zalc combines in an accessible style (smoothly translated by Catherine Porter) the stories of people trapped within a bureaucracy that was as obsessed, perhaps, with clearing files as with hunting Jews. In other words, Zalc reminds us how cruel the banality of indifference could be.”—Wall Street Journal Winner of the Prix d’histoire de la justice A leading historian radically revises our understanding of the fate of Jews under the Vichy regime. Thousands of naturalized French men and women had their citizenship revoked by the Vichy government during ...
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
World directory of textile fibres - covers synthetic textile fibres, soft fibres, cottons, etc., and includes the addresses of prominent textile industry fibre producers, textured yarn processors, associations connected with the industry, designers and builders of fibre factories, etc.
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Denounced as a charlatan and fêted as a mystic, French artist Yves Klein (1928–62) scandalized the art world with his enthusiastic embrace of postwar mass culture and his exploitation of controversial publicity tactics. Today, we know Yves Klein not only as one of the most radical artists of the postwar period, but also as an iconic role model for contemporary practices—he reinvented abstract painting, conceived new horizons for performance art, and was a trailblazer in the realm of land, body, and conceptual art. In this new critical biography, Nuit Banai examines the relationship between Klein’s brief life and his wide repertoire of artistic practices. While surveying the artist’s...
Une analyse des rites et de la tradition orale quechua sur les morts dans leur contexte social actuel, complétée d'un retour sur l'histoire de l'évangélisation pour aider à comprendre l'articulation entre héritages autochtones de l'ancienne religion et apports du catholicisme européen.
¿Qué significa ser ciudadano en un mundo globalizado donde las fronteras ya no son lo que solían ser? ¿Cómo entender la sorpresiva atracción que ejerce un país en el que sus habitantes parecen creer cada vez menos? ¿Qué simboliza nuestro pasaporte, cuál es el horizonte que vislumbran los extranjeros en nuestras tierras, qué efectos tiene la naturalización en la identidad de los individuos? ¿Las mujeres se naturalizan a pesar de no poder votar? Y nosotros, ¿qué interpretamos de todo aquello? ¿Somos, efectivamente, argentinos hasta la muerte? En esta novedosa investigación, Pilar González Bernaldo de Quirós explora la historia de las políticas de nacionalidad y las práctic...