Robert Paxton

Robert Owen Paxton ( born 1932 in Lexington, Virginia, USA) is an emeritus professor of history at Columbia University, New York.

Life

Paxton sturdierte at Washington and Lee University and graduated from Oxford University with an MA from. Where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, before moving to Columbia University as a Mellon professor.

He has published numerous books about Europe and especially France in the 20th century and has won several awards for his studies of the Vichy France.

Paxton appeared in 1998 as a witness in the trial of Maurice Papon, who was convicted for crimes against humanity.

Award

Paxton in 2009 was awarded the Legion d' honneur.

Publications

  • The Anatomy of Fascism, Munich: DVA 2006 ISBN 3-421-05913-6 reviews English original: Anatomy of Fascism, Knopf 2004

Publications in journals

Fascism as a phenomenon of totalitarianism? Article by Robert O. Paxton in the Berlin Tagesspiegel of 12 September 2005

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