Paxton, Robert O.

The anatomy of fascism by Robert O Paxton ( Book )
28 editions published between 2004 and 2007 in English and French and held by 1,710 libraries worldwide
"What is fascism? Many authors have proposed succinct but abstract definitions. Robert O. Paxton prefers to start with concrete historical experience. He focuses more on what fascists did than on what they said. Their first uniformed bands beat up "enemies of the nation," such as communists and foreign immigrants, during the tense days after 1918 when the liberal democracies of Europe were struggling with the aftershocks of World War I. Fascist parties could not approach power, however, without the complicity of conservatives willing to sacrifice the rule of law for security." "Paxton makes clear the sequence of steps by which fascists and conservatives together formed regimes in Italy and Germany, and why fascists remained out of power elsewhere." "This book, based on a lifetime of research, will have a lasting impact on our understanding of twentieth-century history."--BOOK JACKET.

Vichy France and the Jews by Michael Robert Marrus ( Book )
34 editions published between 1981 and 2004 in 4 languages and held by 1,501 libraries worldwide

Vichy France: old guard and new order, 1940-1944 by Robert O Paxton ( Book )
10 editions published between 1972 and 1999 in English and French and held by 1,363 libraries worldwide
Par un historien américain, voici une étude portant sur le gouvernement de l'Etat français et ses rapports avec la population, durant toute la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Parades and politics at Vichy; the French officer corps under Marshal Pétain by Robert O Paxton ( Book )
11 editions published between 1966 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 887 libraries worldwide

Vichy France : old guard and new order, 1940-1944 by Robert O Paxton ( Book )
51 editions published between 1972 and 2001 in 5 languages and held by 762 libraries worldwide
Paxton speaks about the government of Vichy, and the French attitudes of today toward the French government during World War II.

Europe in the twentieth century by Robert O Paxton ( Book )
25 editions published between 1975 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 653 libraries worldwide
Twentieth-century Europeans experienced great achievements and tragic calamities that powerfully affected the rest of the world. In this [book, the author] joins ... illustrative detail with reflection about how these major developments of our time can be understood. [The author] takes the reader from the power, wealth, and creativity of Europe on the eve of 1914 through the four years of blood, mud, and exhaustion of World War I, whose aftereffects last a whole generation. Only twenty years later, after the Bolshevik revolution, Fascism, Nazism, and Depression, Europeans face an even wider, bloodier World War. [This book] traces these developments to 2004, including Vladimir Putin's rise in Russia, ethnic conflict and NATO intervention in Kosovo, the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, the Europeans' launch of the euro, and reactions to 9/11 and war in Iraq.-Back cover.

French peasant fascism : Henry Dorgère's Greenshirts and the crises of French agriculture, 1929-1939 by Robert O Paxton ( Book )
8 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 430 libraries worldwide
French Peasant Fascism is the first account of the Greenshirts, a militant right-wing peasant movement in 1930s France that sought to transform the Republic into an authoritarian, agrarian state. Author Robert Paxton examines the Greenshirts in five case studies, throwing new light on Frenchrural society and institutions during the Depression and on the emergence of a new rural leadership of authentic farmers. Paxton points out that fascism remained weak in the French countryside because the French state protected landowners more effectively than did those of Weimar Germany and Italy, and becau.

De Gaulle and the United States : a centennial reappraisal ( Book )
5 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 299 libraries worldwide

Collaboration and resistance : French literary life under the Nazi occupation by Robert O Paxton ( Book )
5 editions published in 2009 in French and English and held by 202 libraries worldwide

The eye of Vichy L'Oeil de Vichy ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1993 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 184 libraries worldwide
A compilation of long forgotten film footage and newsreels, produced by the Nazis and French collaborators during World War II. From the small town of Vichy in Central France, Field Marshall Petain's puppet government worked with their Nazi overlords in creating pro-Nazi propaganda. They skillfully produced a strange alternative history of the war years in order to turn public emotion against the Allies and the Jews.