John Merriman (1946–2022)
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John Merriman is the Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University, where he regularly teaches the survey of modern European history. A specialist in nineteenth French history, Merriman earned his PhD at the University of Michigan. He is the author of many books, including Massacre: The visa mer Life and Death of the Paris Commune, The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siecle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror, and The Stones of Balazue: A French Village in Time (Norton, 2002). In 2018, he won the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction, recognizing lifetime of achievement. visa färre
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A History of Modern Europe, Second Edition: From the Renaissance to the Present (One-Volume Edition) (1996) 217 exemplar
A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Age of Napoleon (Third Edition) (Vol. 1) (1996) 153 exemplar
A History of Modern Europe, Second Edition: From the French Revolution to the Present (Volume 2) (1996) 146 exemplar
The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siecle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror (2009) 91 exemplar
Consciousness and class experience in nineteenth-century Europe (1979) — Redaktör; Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Europe 1789 to 1914 : Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire: Volume 5: Talleyrand to Zollverein; Index (2006) — Redaktör — 6 exemplar
Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age War and Reconstruction Vol 5 (Scribner Library of Modern Europe) (2006) — Redaktör — 3 exemplar
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- John Merriman is Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. Specializing in French and modern European history, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His publications include The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848-1851, A History of Modern Europe Since the Renaissance, and Police Stories: Making the French State, 1815-1851. He is currently at work on Dynamite: Emile Henry, the Café Terminus, and the Origins of Modern Terrorism in Fin-de-Siecle Paris. In 2000, Professor Merriman was the recipient of the Yale University Byrnes-Sewall Teaching Prize.
http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-202John Merriman, who received his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, teaches French and Modern European history. His books include The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848-1851 (1978); The Red City: Limoges and the French Nineteenth Century (1985), published in French as Limoges, la Ville Rouge (1990); The Margins of City Life: Explorations on the French Urban Frontier (1991), French edition Aux marges de la ville; faubourgs et banlieues en France 1815-1870 (1994); A History of Modern Europe since the Renaissance, 2 vols. (1996; second edition 2002, third edition 2009, under contract for translation into Chinese); and The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time (2002, under contract for translation into Chinese), available in French as Mêmoires de pierres: Balazuc, village ardéchois (Paris, 2005), and in Dutch, as well as Chinese (2014); and Police Stories: Making the French State, 1815-1851 (Oxford UP, 2005).
His edited books include 1830 in France (1975); Consciousness and Class Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1979); French Cities in the Nineteenth Century (1981); For Want of a Horse: Chance and Humor in History (1985); Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in Early Modern Europe (with James McClain and Ugawa Kaoru, 1994); and co-edited (and contributed to), with Jay Winter: The Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914 and The Encyclopedia of Europe, 1914-2006, (each 5 volumes, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006). His entries in the latter include “The French Suburban Riots, 2005” and “The Rolling Stones.”
Dynamite Club: How A Café Bombing Ignited the Age of Modern Terror was published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2009, by JR Books in London, and in French translation by Tallandier as Dynamite Club: L’Invention du Terrorisme à Paris. It is forthcoming in Chinese. Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune was published by Basic Books in New York in 2014 and by Yale University Press in Great Britain (and is forthcoming in Dutch and Portuguese in Brazil). He is currently working on Victor Serge and the Bonnot Gang in fin-de-siècle France. .
Merriman received Yale University’s Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize in 2000, and was awarded a Docteur Honoris Causa in France in 2002, and the “Medal of Meritorious Service to Polish Education” (Medal Kimisji Edukacji Narodowej) awarded by the Ministry of Education of Poland in 2009. Two of his courses are available on line and YouTube through Yale—France since 1871 and Europe, 1648-1945.
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El club de la dinamita es el magnético relato de quienes se alzaron contra el poder establecido, de aquellos que culpaban al capitalismo, a la religión, al Ejército y al Estado de las desgracias de la clase obrera a finales del siglo xix. Su autor, el distinguido historiador John Merriman, muestra cómo el terrorismo moderno comenzó en París aquel 12 de febrero, cuando Émile Henry cometió un ataque contra personas inocentes. Desde entonces, vivimos bajo la amenaza permanente del terrorismo, de ataques que no tienen necesariamente como blanco ni a jefes de Estado ni oficiales de uniforme, sino que cualquiera puede ser el objetivo. Como Merriman demuestra, en el pecho del terrorista pueden latir las más nobles causas y luchas, pero no por ello dejará de ser inmisericorde y terrible.… (mer)