Reading a book on nineteenthcentury anarchism by john merriman is a bit like reading one on the semicolon by strunk and white. John merriman is charles seymour professor of history at yale university and the author of numerous books on french and modern european history. Surprising and provocative, the dynamite club is a brilliantly researched account that illuminates a period of dramatic social and political changeand subtly asks us to reflect upon our own. How a bombing in findesiecle paris ignited the age of modern. The dynamite club fletcher warren the pietist schoolman. The dynamite club was a band of workers, intellectuals and radicals who embraced anarchy as an ideological tool to overthrow the state. This book is motivated by a very simple question, he writes. Urban life and the state in early modern europe with james mcclain and ugawa kaoru, 1994. Merriman subverts the chocolatebox pictures of belle epoque paris we have in our. How a bombing in findesiecle paris ignited the age of modern terror houghton mifflin harcourt.
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