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American political scientist and historian

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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.

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2009Officer of the Legion of Honour
2004Marine Bravo Zulu comics prize
2003honorary doctorate from University of Lyon-II
1997Officer of the National Order of Merit
1996Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
1994honorary doctor of Caen University
1954Rhodes Scholarship

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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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Born 1932 · age 94
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