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    Backbone of the Nation

    Robert Gildea

    A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families

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    What Is History For?

    Robert Gildea

    Gildea suggests that the more people who really understand what good history entails, the more likely history is to triumph over myth. He sees positive signs in public history, citizen…

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    Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914

    Robert Gildea

    For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon’s final defeat, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent…

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    France 1870-1914

    Robert Gildea

    The period 1870-1914 saw the consolidation of republican government and recovery of national self-confidence in France, establishing firm parliamentary rule and building up an empire. This text offers an introduction…

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    Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914

    Robert Gildea

    Nineteenth-century France was renowned for its literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French Revolution’s…

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    Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation

    Robert Gildea

    A startling and original view of the occupation of the French heartland, based on a new investigation of everyday life under Nazi rule

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    France 1870-1914

    Robert Gildea

    The period 1870-1914 saw the consolidation of republican government and recovery of national self-confidence in France, establishing firm parliamentary rule and building up an empire. This text offers an introduction…

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    Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance

    Robert Gildea

    Robert Gildea’s penetrating history of France during World War II sweeps aside the French Resistance of a thousand cliches. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its…

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    Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance

    Robert Gildea

    Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Fighters in the Shadows tells the story of the French Resistance - as it was, rather than how some choose to remember it.

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    Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914

    Robert Gildea

    This is a survey of European history, from the coup d'etat of Napoleon, to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo. It concentrates on the twin themes of revolution and…

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    Backbone of the Nation

    Robert Gildea

    A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families

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    The Past in French History

    Robert Gildea

    This text considers the nature of French history and the awareness of its influence, surveying the ways that various political communities in France during the past two centuries have used…

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    Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present

    Robert Gildea (University of Oxford)

    Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea shows that how empires did not vanish after 1945 but were constantly reinvented as neo-colonialisms. He shows how postwar immigration from the former colonies provoked racism…

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    Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present

    Robert Gildea (University of Oxford)

    Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea shows that how empires did not vanish after 1945 but were constantly reinvented as neo-colonialisms. He shows how postwar immigration from the former colonies provoked racism…

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    France Since 1945

    Robert Gildea (Merton College, Oxford)

    In the fifty years since the end of the Second World War, France has had to deal with the legacy of the German occupation, the effects of the Algerian war…

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    Fighters Across Frontiers: Transnational Resistance in Europe, 1936-48

    This landmark book reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international. Tens of…

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    Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe

    Examining how far everyday life was possible in a situation of total war and brutal occupation, this book’s theme is the social experience of occupation in German- and Italian-occupied Europe…

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    Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe

    Examining how far everyday life was possible in a situation of total war and brutal occupation, this book’s theme is the social experience of occupation in German- and Italian-occupied Europe…

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    Europe’s 1968: Voices of Revolt

    A new and exciting study of Europe’s 1968 based on the rich oral histories of nearly 500 former activists collected by an international team of historians across fourteen countries. Throws…

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    Europe’s 1968: Voices of Revolt

    A new and exciting study of Europe’s 1968 based on the rich oral histories of nearly 500 former activists collected by an international team of historians across fourteen countries. Throws…

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    Writing Contemporary History

    Robert Gildea (University of Oxford),Anne Simonin (French National Scientific Center)

    Writing Contemporary History is an invaluable introduction to the central debates that have shaped the field of contemporary history.

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