The Dynamite Club
How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2016
256 pages
978-0-300-21793-3 (ISBN)
Description
Distinguished historian John Merriman maintains that the Age of Modern Terror began in Paris on February 12, 1894, when anarchist Emile Henry set off a bomb in the CafA(c) Terminus, killing one and wounding twenty French citizens. The true story of the circumstances that led a young radical to commit a cold-blooded act of violence against innocent civilians makes for riveting reading, shedding new light on the terrorist mindset and on the subsequent worldwide rise of anarchism by deed. Merriman's fascinating study of modern history's first terrorists, emboldened by the invention of dynamite, reveals much about the terror of today.
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John M. Merriman
The Dynamite Club
How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siecle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror
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05/2016
Yale University Press
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John Merriman is Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University and the author of numerous books on French and modern European history. He splits his time between North Haven, CT, and Balazuc, France.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Prologue: The Café Terminus
- 1. Light and Shadows in the Capital of Europe
- 2. The Exile's Second Son
- 3. "Love Engenders Hate"
- 4. Dynamite Deeds
- 5. Carnage at a Police Station
- 6. Two Bombs
- 7. The Trial
- 8. Reaction
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
