CHRISTOPHER E. FORTH is a Reader in History at the Australian National University. The author of The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (2004), he is currently completing a book entitled Civilization and its Malcontents: Masculinity and the Body in the Modern West, forthcoming from Palgrave. BERTRAND TAITHE is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Manchester, UK. The author of Defeated Flesh, (1999), Citizenship and Wars, (2001), and co-author of Benjamin's Arcades, (2006) he is currently working on the history of humanitari