John Merriman
Charles Seymour Professor of History
Office: BR K-13
Phone: (203) 432-0526
Email: john.merriman@yale.edu
John Merriman, who received his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, teaches French and Modern European history. His books include 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); and The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time (2002), available in French as Mêmoires de pierres: Balazuc, village ardechois (Paris, 2005). His edited books include 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); and Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in Early Modern Europe (with James McClain and Ugawa Kaoru, 1994).
He has recently completed Police Stories: Making the French State, 1815-1851 (Oxford UP, 2006) and co-edited (and contributed to), with Jay Winter: The Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914 and The Encyclopedia of Europe, 1914-2006, (each 5 volumes, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006). His entries in the latter include "The French Suburban Riots, 2005" and "The Rolling Stones."
He is completing Dynamite: Emile Henry, the Cafe Terminus, and the Origins of Modern Terrorism in Fin-de-Siecle Paris, to be published by Houghton Mifflin and Tallandier. Three of his books have been translated into French, and one each into Dutch and Japanese.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate in France and was the recipient of the Yale University Byrnes-Sewall Teaching Prize in 2000.
