John M. Merriman
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John M. Merriman is a Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University
. He is the author of many books including his most well known A History of Modern Europe since the Renaissance (1996 & 2002), a popular survey text for undergraduate history classes at many American universities and colleges. Merriman was born and raised in Oregon where he attended a Jesuit all-boys high-school, although he does not consider himself religious. His favorite music is The Rolling Stones
, "[I’ve] never written a thing without a record on." Merriman formed many of his current political views during the volatile Vietnam years; he still describes himself as "virulently anti-establishment". His most recent book is The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in the Fin-De-Siecle Paris Ignited The Age of Modern Terror (2009) about the French Anarchist Emile Henry (1872-1894).
He received his Ph.D. and B.A. at the University of Michigan
. Merriman teaches French and Modern European history and first began teaching at Yale in the mid 1970s where he still resides. He was the seventh master of Branford College
(1983-1991). He lives part of each year with his family in France.
Edited books
Lectures
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
. He is the author of many books including his most well known A History of Modern Europe since the Renaissance (1996 & 2002), a popular survey text for undergraduate history classes at many American universities and colleges. Merriman was born and raised in Oregon where he attended a Jesuit all-boys high-school, although he does not consider himself religious. His favorite music is The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
, "[I’ve] never written a thing without a record on." Merriman formed many of his current political views during the volatile Vietnam years; he still describes himself as "virulently anti-establishment". His most recent book is The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in the Fin-De-Siecle Paris Ignited The Age of Modern Terror (2009) about the French Anarchist Emile Henry (1872-1894).
He received his Ph.D. and B.A. at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. Merriman teaches French and Modern European history and first began teaching at Yale in the mid 1970s where he still resides. He was the seventh master of Branford College
Branford College
Branford College is the oldest of the 12 residential colleges at Yale University.-The Founding of Branford:Branford College was founded in 1933 by partitioning the Memorial Quadrangle into two parts: Saybrook and Branford...
(1983-1991). He lives part of each year with his family in France.
Awards and honors
- Yale University Byrnes-Sewall Teaching Prize in 2000
- Awarded an honorary doctorate in France
Published works
Books- The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848-1851 (1978)
- The Red City: Limoges and the French Nineteenth Century (1985)
- The Margins of City Life: Explorations on the French Urban Frontier (1991)
- A History of Modern Europe since the Renaissance, 2 vols. (1996 and second edition 2002)
- The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time (2002), available in French as Mêmoires de pierres: Balazuc, village ardechois (Paris, 2005).
- Police Stories: Making the French State, 1815-1851 (Oxford UP, 2006)
- The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in the Fin-De-Siecle Paris Ignited The Age of Modern Terror (2009)
Edited books
- 1830 in France (1975)
- Consciousness and Class Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1979)
- French Cities in the Nineteenth Century (1981)
- For Want of a Horse: Chance and Humor in History (1985)
- Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in Early Modern Europe (with James McClain and Ugawa Kaoru, 1994)
- The Story of MankindThe Story of MankindThe Story of Mankind was written and illustrated by American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon and published in 1921...
(with Hendrik Willem Van LoonHendrik Willem van LoonHendrik Willem van Loon was a Dutch-American historian and journalist.-Life:He was born in Rotterdam, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken. He went to the United States in 1902 to study at Cornell University, receiving his degree in 1905...
, first published 1921, updated by Merriman in 1999) - The Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914 and The Encyclopedia of Europe, 1914-2006, (each 5 volumes, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006, co-edit (and contributed to) with Jay Winter)
Lectures
- (video) HIST 276: France Since 1871 (Fall 2007), by John Merriman at Open Yale CoursesOpen Yale CoursesOpen Yale Courses is a project of Yale University to share full video and course materials from its undergraduate courses.Open Yale Courses provides free access to a selection of introductory courses....
. - (video) HIST 202: European Civilization, 1648-1945 (Fall, 2008), by John Merriman at Open Yale CoursesOpen Yale CoursesOpen Yale Courses is a project of Yale University to share full video and course materials from its undergraduate courses.Open Yale Courses provides free access to a selection of introductory courses....
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External links
- John Merriman, Yale faculty page.
- The Dynamite Club, C-SPANC-SPANC-SPAN , an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable television network that offers coverage of federal government proceedings and other public affairs programming via its three television channels , one radio station and a group of websites that provide streaming...
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