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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 Café 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

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 Café 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.

Describes and analyzes the careers of the police in provincial France in the context of the centralization of the French state and the professionalization of the police in a period of remarkable change. This book also emphasizes the continuities with the Ancien Regime

Intro -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Life in a Restoration Town -- 2. The Bourgeois Revolution of 1830 and the Workers -- 3. Urban Growth and Industrial Concentration: Old and New Neighborhoods in Second Empire Limoges -- 4. "La Ville rouge": Republicanism, Socialism, and the Commune -- 5. Limoges in the Belle Epoque -- 6. Large-scale Industrialization and Political Organization, 1871-95 -- 7. "De la gare à la conférence contradictoire": Popular Politics and Strikes During the Socialist Municipality, 1895-1905 -- 8. Denouement: The Strikes of 1905 -- EPILOGUE : State, City, and Revolution in Modern France -- 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.

"Auzias's book presents both the passion that was May 68 in France, but also its complexity, without obscuring the divisions that existed in the extreme left. The picture she presents of these "hikers" and other bad boys, invites us to seriously revise the abstract and theoretical readings on the revolution. This work confirms that another story is always possible."Decitre.fr.com-translated