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One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of
under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s "Anglosphere"
to counter the rise in fascist and Nazi antisemitism, this book
examines the ways in which Jewish individuals and organized
communal bodies in the mid-to-late 1930s sought to counter this
increasing antisemitic violence, physical and verbal, by using the
law against their fascist and Nazi attackers. This is the first
study to explore how Jews in these countries organized themselves,
brought their oppressors to court, while seeking to convince their
governments that an attack on Jews was a threat to the social
order. The book analyzes the networks of knowledge and the personal
relationships between and among key actors and institutions of the
"Antisemitic International." Nazi "nationalists" always
participated in networks that transcended borders. Case studies
from Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United
States, illustrate the ways in which different mechanisms of Jewish
resistance were deployed throughout the mid-to-late 1930s. They
embody significant concerns about the "turn to law" and the
importance of litigation and legislation. Grounded in original
archival research on three continents, the book examines the ways
in which professional legal discourse about public order and
democratic citizenship proffered by Jewish communities and
individual Jews was countered by their Nazi opponents with legal
and political arguments about "truth," "persecution," and Jewish
perfidy. The book will be of interest to students, academics, and
researchers working in the areas of Legal History, History, Jewish
Studies, the study of Antisemitism, and the History of the far
right, fascism and Nazism.
The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second
World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became
implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its
Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of
Jewish property. David Fraser demonstrates how a series of
political and legal compromises meant that the infrastructure for
antisemitic persecutions and ultimately the deaths of thousands of
Belgian Jews was Belgian. Based on extensive archival research in
Belgium, France, the United States and Israel, The Fragility of Law
offers the first detailed exploration in English of this intriguing
and virtually unexplored episode of Holocaust history. Belgian
legal officials did not hesitate to invoke the provisions of
international law found in the Hague Convention and those
guarantees of individual freedom found in the national Constitution
to oppose the demands of the German Occupying Authority. However,
they remained largely silent when anti-Jewish persecution was at
stake. Indeed, despite the 2007 official report of expert
historians on Belgian state collaboration in the persecution of the
country's Jewish population, the mythology of "passive
collaboration" which has dominated Belgian historiography and
accounts of the Holocaust in that country, must be radically
rethought.
Erwin Rommel was the outstanding Axis field commander of the Second
World War, respected, even admired, by his opponents. Here it
seemed to the Allies, was a supremely professional soldier:
chivalrous, decent, largely untainted by the crimes of the Nazi
regime, carrying out his duty with often dazzling success. David
Fraser's definitive study brings to Rommel's career not only the
insights of an acclaimed biographer, but also those of a
distinguished soldier. He shows how inspiringly spontaneous and
superficially haphazard Rommel's style of leadership could be; how
his hallmarks of boldness of manoeuvre, ferocity in attack and
tenacity in pursuit, which characterised his great campaign in
North Africa, were evident from his earliest battles in the First
World War. Knight's Cross is first and foremost hte biography of a
soldier, but Rommel reached a position in which he almost
inevitably became embroiled in politics, including his alleged
involvement in the plot to kill Hitler, which condemned him in the
eyes of the Fuhrer he had served so loyally. Rommel is not, to
David Fraser, a flawless hero: his failing as well as his genuis
are recorded here. But he had that instinct for battle and
leadership which set him apart from contemporaries, and places him
among the truly great commanders of history.
This is the first study of historical attempts by anti-animal
cruelty groups to prosecute those involved in the killing of
animals for food using the Jewish method of slaughter (shechita).
It details cases from Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and the
United States, many for the first time, in which animal welfare
groups prosecuted those engaged in shechita as part of their
attempts to introduce compulsory stunning of animals before
slaughter. Despite claims to the contrary, this study offers clear
evidence of underlying, unrelenting antisemitic motivations in the
prosecutions, and highlights the ways in which a basic idea of
innate Jewish cruelty was always juxtaposed with an overtly
Christian ideal of humane treatment of animals across time and
borders.
Caught between these covers is the authentic, forthright voice of
Christian Watt, servant girl, lady's maid and fishwife. Born in
1833, her working life began in domestic service before the age of
nine and ended with her selling her husband's catch from door to
door. The tragic death of most of her close male family - her
husband, four brothers and her favorite child - drowned by a sudden
squall that sunk their boat, robbed her of her sanity. But cared
for in the remarkable Cornhill Asylum in Aberdeen, a kindly doctor
encouraged her to write her memoirs in pencil. In 1983 this bundle
of papers, which included other family documents, was turned into a
book by the historian David Fraser, and has been saluted as the
Montaillou of Scotland.
Cricket, law and the meaning of life ...
In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of cricketa
(TM)s defining controversies a " bodyline, chucking,
ball-tampering, sledging, walking and the use of technology, among
many others a " David Fraser explores the ambiguities of law and
social order in cricket.
Cricket and the Law charts the interrelationship between cricket
and legal theory a " between the law of the game and the law of our
lives a " and demonstrates how cricketa (TM)s cultural conventions
can escape the confines of the game to carry far broader social
meanings.
This engaging study will be enjoyed by lawyers, students of
culture and cricket lovers everywhere.
Cricket, law and the meaning of life ...
In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of cricketa
(TM)s defining controversies a " bodyline, chucking,
ball-tampering, sledging, walking and the use of technology, among
many others a " David Fraser explores the ambiguities of law and
social order in cricket.
Cricket and the Law charts the interrelationship between cricket
and legal theory a " between the law of the game and the law of our
lives a " and demonstrates how cricketa (TM)s cultural conventions
can escape the confines of the game to carry far broader social
meanings.
This engaging study will be enjoyed by lawyers, students of
culture and cricket lovers everywhere.
The body of the law is an ambiguous phrase. Conventionally, it
designates the law as a determinate corpus; legal codes, statutes,
and the rulings of common law. But it can also refer to the
subjected body that is produced by and is part of the law. This
subjected body is necessary for the law's existence.
Thinking Through the Body of the Law reconceives the role of the
body in the founding, maintaining, and regulation of our legal
systems and social order and elaborates on its implications for
issues of legal responsibility and justice. Taking into account and
sometimes challenging the tenets of critical legal theory, critical
race theory, and feminist jurisprudence, these essays examine the
body and the law as they relate to surrogacy, the Holocaust,
land-rights for Aboriginals, murder, the media and insanity,
taxation, genetic engineering, and sexy dressing and sexual
harassment.
A comprehensive, annotated, illustrated bibliography, with essays
placing the work in perspective and describing the underground
press of the day.
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William Wilkins (Hardcover)
David Fraser Jenkins, Geraint Talfan Davies, Moore David
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The work of William Wilkins is unique, both at the level of skill
it displays and the length of time it occupies. Born of months,
even years, of painstaking creation each picture exudes both
artistry and joy; a celebration of perception which merits exposure
to a wide audience. Focusing upon his remarkable pointillist
technique, this book represents the long and celebrated career of
the artist together with the slow maturation of his style.
Based on over thirty years of research of government sentencing
policy and work within the criminal justice system, David Fraser
demonstrates that Britain's increased reliance on alternatives to
imprisonment has allowed violent crime to flourish. The number of
life-threatening attacks has increased rapidly over the last forty
years but justice officials have masked this development within a
blizzard of deceptive statistics. Anti-prison groups tell the
public that violent offenders can be managed in the community under
supervision and that prison makes offenders worse. Contrary to this
misleading propaganda, the evidence presented here informs us that
criminals under probation supervision as an alternative to
imprisonment commit hundreds of the most serious crimes every year,
while the government's figures - which are kept away from the
public eye - make it clear that long prison sentences are our best
protection against violent crime. Licence to Kill demonstrates that
the death penalty was an effective deterrent to homicide but does
not argue for its reintroduction. Instead, by acknowledging its
effectiveness, David Fraser argues the case for a re-vamped
sentencing system that is as effective as was the fear of the
hangman's noose. By providing readers with an alternative
perspective, he invites them to consider the idea of a new criminal
sentencing framework.
The British public today endure some of the world's worst crime
levels. According to the government's own estimates, 132 million
indictable crimes alone are committed every year, the vast majority
of which go unrecorded and undetected. Burglary is rife; street
crime burgeoning and violence is escalating to unprecedented
levels. Fear of crime means that many of us - especially the
vulnerable and the elderly - have become prisoners in our own
homes, leaving predatory criminals free to roam our streets. In
this meticulously researched and passionately argued study of the
contemporary British justice system, David Fraser offers a sobering
indictment of post-war British governments, who have not only
overseen but also fostered this spectacular and terrifying rise in
crime. Almost without exception, governments - and the civil
servants and academics who abet them - have sought to persuade us
that criminals are victims of society and that they are best
rehabilitated within the community rather than punished inside
prisons. So pervasive has this 'anti-prison propaganda' become that
few of whatever political complexion are now prepared to question
its truth. However, as David Fraser cogently argues, community
supervision and probation orders have simply left criminals free to
reoffend, while the criminal justice system's near obsession with
the well-being of criminals has come to override its concerns for
their victims, whose interests and sufferings are callously
ignored. Moreover, he suggests successive governments' failure to
carry out what is their first duty - to protect their citizens -
threatens to undermine our democracy, as more and more people -
exasperated by the blatant injustice of the justice system - take
the law into their own hands. Britain has indeed become 'a land fit
for criminals'.
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