Bertram M Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 553019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bertram M Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bertram M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mills College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A personal remembrance of Nelson Graburn
After the Deportation
While researching my own study, Collaborationism in France during the Second World War, published in 1980, I noted what appeared to be a change in feelings among the French reading public regarding the Occupation years of 1940–44. With a new generation in the 1960s and 1970s, there seemed to be more engagement with a time that many previously had wished to see forgotten. In his thoroughly researched and well-written After the Deportation, Philip …
Introduction to the Journal of Tourism History – 13/3
The History of the European Travel Commission 1948–2018
The European Travel Commission (ETC), created shortly after the end of the Second World War to promote tourism as a way to create greater mutual friendship within Europe as well as marketing the ec
The Musée de la Grande Guerre du Pays de Meaux – a simulacrum of the 1914–1918 war
On 11 November 2011, 93 years after the armistice that ended World War I, President Nicolas Sarkozy officially helped open the Musée de la Grande Guerre in Meaux, near the bloody Marne River battle sites of 1914 and 1918, as well as near Disneyland Paris. The new museum included a reconstituted battlefield with a ‘no man's land’ plus three-dimensional projections to ‘revive the hell of a trench.’ Speaking at its groundbreaking in 2010, Frédéric M…
Paris à Table
Eugène-Victor Briffault (1799–1854) is described as a publicist and journalist, a ‘mythographer’ of the art of the table, in a recent French edition of his Paris à table. Briffault’s work may be best understood in the context of the philosophical discourse of his time, which included a brief turn towards the senses that focused on diet as a key factor in the determination of personality and the structure of morality. Examples include Lancelot Stu…
Stephen L. Harp, Au Naturel
Touring the field
The growth of tourism during the past half century, projected by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation to reach 1.8 billion international tourist arrivals worldwide by 2030, has been accompanied by an increase in related academic study groups across many disciplines. This article catalogues the various organisations, focusing more on those that emphasise the culture of tourism than its business side, although the two often overlap. Future…
Reinventions of a spa town
Vichy appeared first as a Roman village, disappeared with the Empire, and was reborn as a medieval fortified town. Following the Middle Ages and the wars of religion, Vichy emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a spa centre. Urban modernisation during the Second Empire and Belle Époque, together with the promotion of hydrotherapy by business and medical interests, propelled it into prominence as an international spa tourist desti…
The evolving popularity of tourist sites in France
This article suggests an approach to the history of tourism in France through the study of statistics collected by various agencies there since the 1950s, which however offer differing definitions and methodologies, making comparison fraught. In the 1950s, the Health Ministry inquired about vacation homes, whereas more recently, various agencies counted paid entrances to sites such as the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, arguably undercounting v…
El turismo de masas
El término «turismo de masas» fue popularizado entre las años 1950 y 1970, cuando el número de turistas internacionales se incrementó al doble cada siete años. El turismo es la expresión de valores estéticos; la gente viaja para ver lo bello, lo deseable, lo interesante. Como expresión práctica de la curiosidad, el turismo pudo haber estado más desarrollado durante la era paleolítica tardía que en los tiempos modernos. El siglo XX fue marcado por…
The Collaborator
1Mills College The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach AliceKaplan Chicago; LondonUniversity of Chicago Press 2000308$25.00
Historical Dictionary of World War II France
European Memories of the Second World War
Part One: Disempowering through Racism, How a Dream was Shattered by Patrick Janssens Explaining Increased Racial Conflict in Post-industrial Societies: the Creation of Systemic 'Competitive' Youth Unemployment by Troy Duster, Racial Conflicts in British Cities by Eric Seward, Limits of Tolerance and Limited Tolerance: How Tolerant are the Danes? by Peter Hervik, The Politics of 'Caste is Race': the Impact of Urbanisation by Dipankar Gupta, Playi…
The Decline of a Cultural Icon
Recent reports from both Britain and the United States show a decline in language classes. Richard Needham, trade minister of Britain, in May 1995 stated that schools in the United Kingdom did a disservice to Britain's students by teaching instead of Spanish, when growing business opportunities in Latin America called for training in the latter language. According to Needham, French is a difficult language and it's not a language of world busines…
Sisters in the Resistance
Women and the War-within-a-War. France under German Occupation. French Women under the Vichy Regime. Organizing Resistance in France. Resistance: A Family Affair. Young and Alone. War Is a Man's Affair. Support Services: Women's Eternal Vocation. Dangerous Liaisons. Room and Board: Critical Concerns. Choosing Roles. Collaboration. Conclusion: Women and the Legacy of the Resistance. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index
Warfare and tourism paris in World War II
La Seconde Guerre Mondiale, Guide des Sources Conservees en France 1939- 1945
Ist Gott Französisch? Germans, tourism, and occupied France, 1940–1944
(1996). Ist Gott Franzosisch? Germans, tourism, and occupied France, 1940–1944. Modern & Contemporary France: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 287-298
The "Vichy Syndrome" Problem in History
Historical interest in the ways World War II has been remembered in France has on occasion in the last decade focused on the concept of a syndrome. As used by its protagonists, the Vichy is a synecdoche for arguments that depict an agonized postwar France somehow attempting to reconcile itself to its history. Vichy, in the language of the Vichy syndrome, has become a metaphor for French collaboration with Nazi genocide. In large measure, the Vich…
Collaboration, Retribution, and Crimes Against Humanity
In Search of the Maquis
Resistance and refuge, 1942 refusal and revolt, spring 1943 hunters and hunted, summer-autumn 1943 structures and communities, winter 1943-1944 strategies and localities, winter-spring 1944 insurrections and liberations, summer 1944 images and memories, 1944 and after. Conclusion: alternatives.
La Repression des Collaborations, 1942-1952
The Vichy Syndrome
The Condottieri of the Collaboration
The Decline of a Cultural Icon
Recent reports from both Britain and the United States show a decline in language classes. Richard Needham, trade minister of Britain, in May 1995 stated that schools in the United Kingdom did a disservice to Britain's students by teaching instead of Spanish, when growing business opportunities in Latin America called for training in the latter language. According to Needham, French is a difficult language and it's not a language of world busines…
The "Vichy Syndrome" Problem in History
Historical interest in the ways World War II has been remembered in France has on occasion in the last decade focused on the concept of a syndrome. As used by its protagonists, the Vichy is a synecdoche for arguments that depict an agonized postwar France somehow attempting to reconcile itself to its history. Vichy, in the language of the Vichy syndrome, has become a metaphor for French collaboration with Nazi genocide. In large measure, the Vich…
Warfare and tourism paris in World War II
The Musée de la Grande Guerre du Pays de Meaux – a simulacrum of the 1914–1918 war
On 11 November 2011, 93 years after the armistice that ended World War I, President Nicolas Sarkozy officially helped open the Musée de la Grande Guerre in Meaux, near the bloody Marne River battle sites of 1914 and 1918, as well as near Disneyland Paris. The new museum included a reconstituted battlefield with a ‘no man's land’ plus three-dimensional projections to ‘revive the hell of a trench.’ Speaking at its groundbreaking in 2010, Frédéric M…
Reinventions of a spa town
Vichy appeared first as a Roman village, disappeared with the Empire, and was reborn as a medieval fortified town. Following the Middle Ages and the wars of religion, Vichy emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a spa centre. Urban modernisation during the Second Empire and Belle Époque, together with the promotion of hydrotherapy by business and medical interests, propelled it into prominence as an international spa tourist desti…
Ist Gott Französisch? Germans, tourism, and occupied France, 1940–1944
(1996). Ist Gott Franzosisch? Germans, tourism, and occupied France, 1940–1944. Modern & Contemporary France: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 287-298
The Condottieri of the Collaboration
Food and History
Food and History
Europe’s Young Fascists
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBertram M. GordonDr. Bertram M. Gordon is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at Mills College, Oakland, California, where he teaches courses on the history of Fascism, Marxism and Nazism in the modern period
The Condottieri of the Collaboration
The Vichy Syndrome
In Search of the Maquis
Resistance and refuge, 1942 refusal and revolt, spring 1943 hunters and hunted, summer-autumn 1943 structures and communities, winter 1943-1944 strategies and localities, winter-spring 1944 insurrections and liberations, summer 1944 images and memories, 1944 and after. Conclusion: alternatives.
La Repression des Collaborations, 1942-1952
The "Vichy Syndrome" Problem in History
Historical interest in the ways World War II has been remembered in France has on occasion in the last decade focused on the concept of a syndrome. As used by its protagonists, the Vichy is a synecdoche for arguments that depict an agonized postwar France somehow attempting to reconcile itself to its history. Vichy, in the language of the Vichy syndrome, has become a metaphor for French collaboration with Nazi genocide. In large measure, the Vich…
Collaboration, Retribution, and Crimes Against Humanity
Ist Gott Französisch? Germans, tourism, and occupied France, 1940–1944
(1996). Ist Gott Franzosisch? Germans, tourism, and occupied France, 1940–1944. Modern & Contemporary France: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 287-298
La Seconde Guerre Mondiale, Guide des Sources Conservees en France 1939- 1945
Sisters in the Resistance
Women and the War-within-a-War. France under German Occupation. French Women under the Vichy Regime. Organizing Resistance in France. Resistance: A Family Affair. Young and Alone. War Is a Man's Affair. Support Services: Women's Eternal Vocation. Dangerous Liaisons. Room and Board: Critical Concerns. Choosing Roles. Collaboration. Conclusion: Women and the Legacy of the Resistance. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index
Warfare and tourism paris in World War II
Historical Dictionary of World War II France
European Memories of the Second World War
Part One: Disempowering through Racism, How a Dream was Shattered by Patrick Janssens Explaining Increased Racial Conflict in Post-industrial Societies: the Creation of Systemic 'Competitive' Youth Unemployment by Troy Duster, Racial Conflicts in British Cities by Eric Seward, Limits of Tolerance and Limited Tolerance: How Tolerant are the Danes? by Peter Hervik, The Politics of 'Caste is Race': the Impact of Urbanisation by Dipankar Gupta, Playi…
The Decline of a Cultural Icon
Recent reports from both Britain and the United States show a decline in language classes. Richard Needham, trade minister of Britain, in May 1995 stated that schools in the United Kingdom did a disservice to Britain's students by teaching instead of Spanish, when growing business opportunities in Latin America called for training in the latter language. According to Needham, French is a difficult language and it's not a language of world busines…
El turismo de masas
El término «turismo de masas» fue popularizado entre las años 1950 y 1970, cuando el número de turistas internacionales se incrementó al doble cada siete años. El turismo es la expresión de valores estéticos; la gente viaja para ver lo bello, lo deseable, lo interesante. Como expresión práctica de la curiosidad, el turismo pudo haber estado más desarrollado durante la era paleolítica tardía que en los tiempos modernos. El siglo XX fue marcado por…
The Collaborator
1Mills College The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach AliceKaplan Chicago; LondonUniversity of Chicago Press 2000308$25.00
The evolving popularity of tourist sites in France
This article suggests an approach to the history of tourism in France through the study of statistics collected by various agencies there since the 1950s, which however offer differing definitions and methodologies, making comparison fraught. In the 1950s, the Health Ministry inquired about vacation homes, whereas more recently, various agencies counted paid entrances to sites such as the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, arguably undercounting v…
Reinventions of a spa town
Vichy appeared first as a Roman village, disappeared with the Empire, and was reborn as a medieval fortified town. Following the Middle Ages and the wars of religion, Vichy emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a spa centre. Urban modernisation during the Second Empire and Belle Époque, together with the promotion of hydrotherapy by business and medical interests, propelled it into prominence as an international spa tourist desti…
Touring the field
The growth of tourism during the past half century, projected by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation to reach 1.8 billion international tourist arrivals worldwide by 2030, has been accompanied by an increase in related academic study groups across many disciplines. This article catalogues the various organisations, focusing more on those that emphasise the culture of tourism than its business side, although the two often overlap. Future…
Stephen L. Harp, Au Naturel
Paris à Table
Eugène-Victor Briffault (1799–1854) is described as a publicist and journalist, a ‘mythographer’ of the art of the table, in a recent French edition of his Paris à table. Briffault’s work may be best understood in the context of the philosophical discourse of his time, which included a brief turn towards the senses that focused on diet as a key factor in the determination of personality and the structure of morality. Examples include Lancelot Stu…
The History of the European Travel Commission 1948–2018
The European Travel Commission (ETC), created shortly after the end of the Second World War to promote tourism as a way to create greater mutual friendship within Europe as well as marketing the ec
The Musée de la Grande Guerre du Pays de Meaux – a simulacrum of the 1914–1918 war
On 11 November 2011, 93 years after the armistice that ended World War I, President Nicolas Sarkozy officially helped open the Musée de la Grande Guerre in Meaux, near the bloody Marne River battle sites of 1914 and 1918, as well as near Disneyland Paris. The new museum included a reconstituted battlefield with a ‘no man's land’ plus three-dimensional projections to ‘revive the hell of a trench.’ Speaking at its groundbreaking in 2010, Frédéric M…
Introduction to the Journal of Tourism History – 13/3
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