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Robert O. Paxton

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Born: June 14 1932

Robert Owen Paxton is an American political scientist and historian specializing in Vichy France, fascism, and Europe during the World War II era. After attending secondary school in New England, he received a B.A. from Washington and Lee University in 1954. Later, he won a Rhodes Scholarship and spent two years earning an M.A. at Merton College, Oxford, where he studied under historians including James Joll and John Roberts. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1963. Paxton taught at the University of California, Berkeley and the State University of New York at Stony Brook before joining the faculty of Columbia University in 1969. He served there for the remainder of his career, retiring in 1997. He remains a professor emeritus. He has contributed more than twenty reviews to The New York Review of Books, beginning in 1978 and continuing through 2017.

Robert O. Paxton

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Born: June 14 1932

Robert Owen Paxton is an American political scientist and historian specializing in Vichy France, fascism, and Europe during the World War II era. After attending secondary school in New England, he received a B.A. from Washington and Lee University in 1954. Later, he won a Rhodes Scholarship and spent two years earning an M.A. at Merton College, Oxford, where he studied under historians including James Joll and John Roberts. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1963. Paxton taught at the University of California, Berkeley and the State University of New York at Stony Brook before joining the faculty of Columbia University in 1969. He served there for the remainder of his career, retiring in 1997. He remains a professor emeritus. He has contributed more than twenty reviews to The New York Review of Books, beginning in 1978 and continuing through 2017.

Books from Robert O. Paxton

Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Vichy France and the Jews

Europe in the Twentieth Century, 2005 Update

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Faşizmin Anatomisi

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Collaboration and Resistance: French Literary Life Under the Nazi Occupation

6 juin 44

L'Armée de Vichy. Le corps des officiers français (Contemporaine)

The New World

L'Europe Au XXe Siècle: 1 (APPROCHES)

The New World

Butler Ames and the Villa Balbianello, Lake Como, Italy

L'armée De Vichy: Le Corps Des Officiers Français

Not the Germans Alone: A Son's Search for the Truth of Vichy

The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945

Parades And Politics At Vichy: French Officer Corps Under Marshal Petain

La marine de Vichy: Blocus et collaboration (CONTEMPO.)