Maurice Larkin
Maurice J. M. Larkin (1932 – 2004) was an English historian specialising in the history of modern France.[1] He held the Richard Pares Chair of History at Edinburgh University from 1976 till 1999. Larkin was also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[2]
Selected works
[edit]- 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
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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]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Robert Anderson (16 March 2004) Professor Maurice Larkin. Historian of France, The Independent Obituaries
- ^ www.shc.ed.ac.uk https://web.archive.org/web/20120707073944/http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/news%26events/Events_Archive/index.htm. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012.
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