Robert Gildea's interests are in French and European history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written on the impact of the German occupation in France and Europe during the Second World War, and is directing a collaborative research project on 1968 in Europe based on the collecti...
Robert Gildea's interests are in French and European history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written on the impact of the German occupation in France and Europe during the Second World War, and is directing a collaborative research project on 1968 in Europe based on the collection and analysis of oral testimony.
Publications include:
"Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914" (2008), "Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation, 1940-45" (2002), "France since 1945" (1996, 2002), "The Past in French History" (1994), "Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914" (1987, 2003), "Education in Provincial France, 1800-1914" (1983)
Editor "Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily life in occupied France" (2006)