John Merriman, Author . Norton $26.95 (422p) ISBN 978-0-393-05113-1
Acclaimed Yale historian Merriman (A History of Modern Europe) has written an exhaustively researched and valuable chronicle of Balazuc (where he spends part of the year), using the small village in south-central France as an excellent lens through...
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John Merriman, Author . Houghton Mifflin $26 (259p) ISBN 978-0-618-55598-7
Those who think of terrorism as an inexplicable evil produced by an alien culture will have their eyes opened by this fascinating study of 19th-century anarchist terrorists. Yale historian Merriman (History of Modern Europe
) tells the story of &Eacu
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John Merriman. Basic, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-465-02017-1
The Paris Commune is an event that tends to more referenced than understood, but Yale University historian Merriman (The Dynamite Club) changes that with this harrowing account of its 64 days in 1871. He brings the reader up to speed quickly, from...
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John Merriman. Nation, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56858-988-6
Historian Merriman (Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune) recounts the 1911 bank robbery and subsequent manhunt that rocked the relatively placid Third French Republic in the last days of the belle époque. He takes readers to the...
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