John Merriman

History on the Margins

People and Places in the Emergence of Modern France

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Produktbeschreibung

John Merriman is the Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. He has written and edited many works on French and European history,¿including, most recently, Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits: The Crime Spree that Gripped Belle Époque Paris;¿Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune; and The Dynamite Club:¿How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror. Merriman won the 2017 American Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction for lifetime achievement. ¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 149mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780803295896
• ISBN-10: 0803295898
• Artikelnr.: 52416271

Autorenporträt

John Merriman (1946–2022) was the Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. He wrote and edited many works on French and European history, including, most recently, Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits: The Crime Spree that Gripped Belle Époque Paris; Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune; and The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror. Merriman won the 2017 American Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction for lifetime achievement.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments 
Introduction
1. The Demoiselles of the Ariège, 1829–1831
2. The Norman Fires of 1830: Incendiaries and Fear in Rural France
3. Incident at the Statue of the Virgin Mary: The Conflict of Old and New
in Nineteenth-Century Limoges
4. The Language of Social Stigmatization and Urban Space in
Nineteenth-Century France
5. On the Loose: The Impact of Rumors and Mouchards in the Ardèche during
the Second Republic
6. Some Observations on the Transition to the Euro in France
7. I Went Up to Amiens Today: A Tribute to Charles Tilly
Source Acknowledgments
Notes