The dynamite club : how a bombing in fin-de-siècle Paris ignited the age of modern terror /

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...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Merriman, John M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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