In his distinguished career as a historian of modern France, John Merriman has published ten books and scores of scholarly articles. This volume collects some of his most notable and significant explorations of French history and culture.
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.
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