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Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871
John Merriman
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paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8pp. b/w. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 34. Weight in Grams: 376.
One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18 March and 28 May. Its brief rule ended in `Bloody Week' - the brutal massacre of as many as 15,000 Parisians, and perhaps even more, who perished at the hands of the provisional government's forces. By then, the city's boulevards had been torched and its monuments toppled. More than 40,000 Parisians were investigated, imprisoned or forced into exile - a purging of Parisian society by a conservative national government ... Read more
One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18 March and 28 May. Its brief rule ended in `Bloody Week' - the brutal massacre of as many as 15,000 Parisians, and perhaps even more, who perished at the hands of the provisional government's forces. By then, the city's boulevards had been torched and its monuments toppled. More than 40,000 Parisians were investigated, imprisoned or forced into exile - a purging of Parisian society by a conservative national government ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300219449
SKU
9780300219449
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About John Merriman
John Merriman is Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University, where he teaches French and Modern European History. He received Yale's Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize in 2000, and was awarded a Docteur Honoris Causa in France in 2002. His many books include Dynamite Club: How A Cafe Bombing Ignited the Age of Modern Terror (2009), Police ... Read more
Reviews for Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871
`This blow-by-blow account of the rise and fall of 1871 Paris Commune is, at times, almost too painful to read.' - Gordon Parsons, Morning Star
Gordon Parsons
Morning Star
Gordon Parsons
Morning Star