Robert O. Paxton
Robert Owen Paxton is an American political scientist and historian specializing in Vichy France, fascism, and Europe during the World War II era.
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Robert Owen Paxton is an American political scientist and historian specializing in Vichy France, fascism, and Europe during the World War II era.
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Birth date: 1932
Robert O. Paxton's Books
Not very entertaining but very necessary and clear. I will probably continue to reach for this book over the years.
Over the past few years, the word "fascist" has been deployed increasingly to describe modern-day political movements in the United States, Hungary, Greece, and Italy, to name a few places. The word brings with it some of the most odious associations from the 20th century, namely Nazi Germany and th...
This book was required reading for my 20th Century European History course as part of my university degree program. I should start off by saying my knowledge of history is truly horrible. The subject didn’t interest me at all when I was young, and I paid as little attention as possible. But I’m a...
While I like Paxton's other book enormously -- and I really liked the writing here -- I found I got bogged down after about 1/3 the way through and moved on -- or rather -- skimmed my way home..., so to speak....
The starting point for the topic.
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