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According to Wikipedia, Robert Owen Paxton is an American political scientist and historian specializing in Vichy France, fascism, and Europe during the World War II era. He is Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science in the Department of History at Columbia University. He is best known for his 1972 book Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, which precipitated intense debate in France, and led to a paradigm shift in how the events of the Vichy regime are interpreted.

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Vichy France and the Jews (1995) (211)
The Anatomy of Fascism (2004) (183)
The Five Stages of Fascism* (1998) (143)
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944@@@Le gouvernement de Vichy, 1940-1942: Institutions et politiques (1973) (81)
A STUDY OF GONOCOCCAL INFECTIONS AMONG INFANTS AND CHILDREN. (1965) (69)
The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan (1977) (68)
Vichy Reconsidered@@@Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 (1974) (55)
The Nazis and the Jews in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1944 (1982) (34)
The Bretons against France: Ethnic Minority Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Brittany (1979) (29)
French Peasant Fascism: Henry Dorgères' Greenshirts and the Crises of French Agriculture, 1929-1939 (1997) (24)
Divided and conquered : the French high command and the defeat of the West, 1940 (1980) (21)
Europe in the Twentieth Century (1975) (18)
Comparisons and Definitions (2010) (16)
De Gaulle and the United States : a centennial reappraisal (1994) (14)
Parades and politics at Vichy : the French officer corps under Marshal Pétain (1967) (13)
Parades And Politics At Vichy (1966) (8)
The Purge: The Purification of French Collaborators After World War II (1986) (7)
2. A Mid-Atlantic Identity (2017) (5)
The German Opposition to Hitler: A Non-Germanist's View (1981) (4)
Collaboration and resistance : French literary life under the Nazi occupation (2009) (3)
Season of Infamy: A Diary of War and Occupation, 1939-1945 (2016) (3)
Franco's Spain in comparative perspective (2013) (3)
Wandering Albatross in California (1968) (2)
The winter season december 1 1987 february 29 1988 hudson delaware region usa (1988) (2)
Anti-Americanism in the Years of Collaboration and Resistance (1990) (2)
Persecution and Rescue: The Politics of the “Final Solution” in France, 1940–1944 by Wolfgang Seibel (review) (2017) (2)
Gérard Noiriel's Third Republic (2000) (1)
"La France de Vichy 1940-1944", Robert O. Paxton, Paris 1973 : [recenzja] / Stanisław Salmonowicz. (1976) (1)
Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications. By Ivan Ermakoff. Politics, History, and Culture. Edited by Julia Adams and George Steinmetz. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. xxxvi+402. $99.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). (2012) (1)
First North American record of Pallas's Warbler ( Phylloscopus proregulus ) at Gambell, Alaska (2006) (1)
Look, learn, leap. (1999) (1)
The spring season march 1 to may 31 1989 hudson delaware region usa (1989) (1)
Interview with Robert O. Paxton, on the Writing of History and Ego-history (2018) (1)
X. 1942: Neutrality Threatened (1966) (0)
Public Opinion, 1940-42 (1993) (0)
Book Review:The Army and the Fith Republic Orville D. Menard (1969) (0)
XII. After November 1942: The Officers Dispersed (1966) (0)
IV. A Plague on Both Their Houses (1966) (0)
Re: permission for use of a quote by Robert Paxton to promote VA.--Correspondence (1958) (0)
The Trouble with France.@@@Vichy France and the Jews. (1982) (0)
The Shadow War: European Resistance 1939-1945@@@The French against the French: Collaboration and Resistance (1976) (0)
Book Review:Pierre Laval and the Eclipse of France, 1931-1945 Geoffrey Warner (1970) (0)
Maintaining Order in Occupied France (2011) (0)
The Roots of Vichy Antisemitism (1993) (0)
Abbreviations and Short Titles Used in Footnotes (1966) (0)
Season of Infamy (2016) (0)
Physician Assistants’ Role in Twenty-First Century Infectious Diseases (2017) (0)
W D. Halls. The Youth of Vichy France. New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 1981. Pp. xi, 492. $59.00 (1982) (0)
XIII. In the Mainstream of French Army Tradition (1966) (0)
The Rescue of Jews in France and its Empire during World War II: History and Memory (2012) (0)
IX. The Party of Revanche: Resistance in the Armistice Army (1966) (0)
:Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and Fascism in France (2000) (0)
Book Review:La Derive Fasciste: Doriot, Deat, Bergery, 1933-1945 Philippe Burrin (1989) (0)
I. June 1940: The French Army Lives On (1966) (0)
VII. 1941: Neutrality Entrenched (1966) (0)
Beyond the Beach: The Allied War Against France. By Stephen Alan Bourque. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2018. Pp. 376. $34.95.) (2019) (0)
Georges Mandel and the Third Republic.@@@Georges Mandel: Un Clemenciste en Gironde. (1973) (0)
Daniel Lee, Pétain's Jewish Children. French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime (2017) (0)
The French Press: Class, State, and Ideology.J. W. Freiberg (1984) (0)
Bitter Wounds. German Victims of the Great War, 1914–1939. By Robert Weldon Whalen. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984. 245 pp. 18 illustr. $24.95) (1985) (0)
:France and the French: La Vie en Bleu since 1900 (2007) (0)
III. July-December 1940: Neutrality or Revanche? (1966) (0)
Book Review:The French Popular Front: A Legislative Analysis Paul Warwick (1978) (0)
De Gaulle's Foreign Policy: 1944-1946. A. W. DePorte (1969) (0)
In search of `true France' (1994) (0)
France: The Gray Years (1969) (0)
4. The System at Work, 1940–1942 (2020) (0)
:To the Threshold of Power, 1922/33: Origins and Dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist Dictatorships, Volume 1 (2009) (0)
VIII. The Uses and Abuses of Freedom: Officers in Politics, 1941–42 (1966) (0)
XI. November 1942: Neutrality Defended (1966) (0)
H. R. Kedward. Resistance in Vichy France: A Study of Ideas and Motivation in the Southern Zone, 1940–1942. New York: Oxford University Press. 1978. Pp. ix, 311. $21.00 (1979) (0)
French against French (2004) (0)
VI. The Officers Turned Schoolmaster (1966) (0)
Nationalism, Anti‐Semitism, and Fascism in France. By Michel Winock. Translated byJane Marie Todd.Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. vii+351. $55.00. (2000) (0)
MacGregor Knox. To the Threshold of Power, 1922/33: Origins and Dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist Dictatorships, Volume 1. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 448. Cloth $75.00, paper $22.99. (2009) (0)
Back to European Fascism (2006) (0)
Update in the Molecular Diagnostics of Sexually Transmitted Infections (2019) (0)
The New World (2002) (0)
Body size, demography and foraging in a socially plastic sweat bee: a common garden experiment (2012) (0)
Republican France: Army-State Relations (1968) (0)
V. Liberation in Captivity (1966) (0)

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