Maurice Larkin

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Maurice J. M. Larkin (1932 – 2004) was an English historian specialising in the history of modern France.[1] Between 1976 and 1999 he held the Richard Pares Chair of History at Edinburgh University. Larkin was also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[2]

Selected works[]

  • Gathering Pace; Continental Europe 1870-1945. New York: Humanities Press, 1970.
  • Church and State after the Dreyfus Affair. The Separation Issue in France. London: Macmillan, 1974
    • Translated into French as: L’Église et l’État en France. 1905 : la crise de la Séparation, Toulouse : Privat, Bibliothèque historique universelle, 2004
  • Man and Society in Nineteenth-Century Realism. Macmillan, 1977
  • France since the Popular Front : Government and People, 1936-1986. Oxford University Press, 1988, 1997
  • Religion, Politics and Preferment in France since 1890. La Belle Époque and its Legacy. Cambridge University Press, 1995, 2002.

Reception[]

His 1974 book on the events surrounding the 1905 separation of church and state in France was described as "a classic on French history of secularism"[3] and as "still the standard account of the subject".[1]

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References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Robert Anderson (16 March 2004) Professor Maurice Larkin. Historian of France, The Independent Obituaries
  2. ^ http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/news&events/Events_Archive/index.htm Archived 7 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/cdtr/pdf/IssuesCompDemSecSyllabus.pdf


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