John Merriman on the Paris Commune and the French Anarchists

‘THE PARIS COMMUNE AND THE FRENCH ANARCHISTS, 1870-1914 (IMAGES AND COLLECTIVE MEMORIES)’

PROFESSOR JOHN MERRIMAN

CHARLES SEYMOUR PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, YALE UNIVERSITY

Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 17.00-19.00

RHB 137, Goldsmiths, University of London

In this talk, Professor Merriman will examine the influence of the Paris Commune on the anarchist movement in Paris in the 1880s and especially the 1890s, focusing on the centre-periphery dynamic, elite fears of the margins of Parisian life and the memories of the ‘Bloody Week’ which ended the Commune in May 1871.

Professor Merriman is a distinguished professor of French and European history. Among his many publications are: A History of Modern Europe since the Renaissance, Volumes One and Two (W.W. Norton, 3^rd edition, 2009); Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris Ignited the Age of Mass Terrorism (Houghton Miflin Harcourt Co, 2009); Police Stories: Building the French State, 1815-51 (Oxford University Press, 2006); The Stone of Balazuc: A French Village in Time (W.W. Norton and Co., 2002).

Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune will be published by Basic Books this autumn.

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