| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
"With a new preface." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Henry, Emile, 1872-1894.
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| SUBJECT |
Henry, Emile, 1872-1894 fast |
| Subject |
Bombings -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
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Terrorism -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
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Anarchism -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Anarchism
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Bombings
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Terrorism
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France -- Paris
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300217933 |
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0300217935 |
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