Robert Gildea

Dados Biográficos

ID313677
NOMERobert Gildea
PRENOMESRobert
SOBRENOMEGildea
ASSINATURAGILDEA R
AFILIAÇÕESKingston College
ORCID0000-0001-5508-1862
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS78
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES35
TOTAL COMO AUTOR75
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1978
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • En guerre et en grève

    Open AccessRobert GildeaARTICLEThe English Historical Review2026

    Just as British historians enjoy myth-busting in respect of the French Resistance, pointing out that it was not as heroic, widespread or even French as is generally asserted, so Ariane Mak, a lecturer at Paris City University, reveals that Britain was not as heroic, united and patriotic during the so-called ‘People’s War’ as many historians claim. There were nearly 7,500 strikes in the UK during the Second World War, accounting for nine million d…

  • Bourses et boursiers de l’enseignement secondaire en France, 1802–1914 , by Jean Le Bihan

    Open AccessRobert GildeaARTICLEThe English Historical Review2025

  • Values and multilateralism in world politics

    Open AccessFederica D’Alessandra, Robert GildeaARTICLEThe British Journal of Politics…2025Referências: 13

    This article examines the role of values in multilateral cooperation. We argue that multilateralism possesses core, non-instrumental values – namely, a spirit of collectivity, inclusivity over exclusivity, and negotiated governance – that distinguish it from other forms of international cooperation. These values, embedded within institutional frameworks and practices, may underpin multilateralism’s continued relevance in addressing contemporary f…

  • Sarah Gensburger, Qui pose les questions mémorielles ? , Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2023, 336 p

    Robert GildeaARTICLELe Mouvement social2025

  • The French Resistance and Its Legacy by Rod Kedward (review)

    Robert GildeaARTICLEHistoire sociale2024

    Reviewed by: The French Resistance and Its Legacy by Rod Kedward Robert Gildea Kedward, Rod – The French Resistance and Its Legacy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 148 p. For 50 years Rod Kedward has dominated the study of the French Resistance in Britain and has been rightly honoured in France. This work, which he has published at the age of 85, is a think piece about his career working on the Resistance and offers wonderful insights into his…

  • Rod Kedward (1937-2023)

    Open AccessRobert GildeaARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2024

  • Eingegangene Bücher

    Open AccessThomas Barfield, Shadow An et al.ARTICLEHistorische Zeitschrift2023

  • Julian Jackson, France on Trial

    Open AccessRobert GildeaARTICLESociety2023

  • Olivier Wieviorka, Une Histoire de la Résistance en Europe occidentale

    Robert GildeaARTICLEHistoire Politique2022

    Après ses études magistrales – La Résistance française (Perrin, 2013) et Le Débarquement en Normandie (Perrin, 2007) –, Olivier Wieviorka nous offre une troisième perspective sur la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, celle des rapports entre les Alliés et les résistances intérieures. Il démontre que l’histoire – et les mythes – de la résistance nationale ont occulté le rôle des Alliés dans la guerre des ombres en Europe, et il analyse, à partir des archiv…

  • Claire Andrieu, Tombés du ciel. Le sort des pilotes abattus en Europe, 1939-1945, Paris, Tallandier/ministère des Armées, 2021, 512 p

    Open AccessRobert GildeaARTICLEAnnales Histoire Sciences Sociales2022

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  • Le Moment Daniel Cordier. Comment Écrire l’Histoire de la Résistance

    Open AccessRobert GildeaARTICLEFrench History2021

    For most readers, Daniel Cordier will be known as a veteran of the French Résistance, the right-hand man of Jean Moulin and one of the 1038 elite Compagnons de la Libération who died, aged 100, in 2020. In this brilliant and subtle study, veteran historian of the Resistance Laurent Douzou tells a darker story of how Cordier’s desire to settle accounts with rival members of the Resistance led to a ‘historiographical turning point’ which effectivel…

  • How the French Learned to Vote

    Robert GildeaARTICLEHistory Reviews of New Books2021

    "How the French Learned to Vote: A History of Electoral Practice in France." History: Reviews of New Books, 49(5), pp. 119–120

  • Laïcité , Republic and Nation in Post-Colonial France

    Open AccessRobert GildeaARTICLEContemporary European History2018Referências: 2

    The question of ‘secularity’ ( laïcité ) has risen sharply up the French political agenda over the last twenty-five years. Ways in which it is defined and applied are hotly contested and lie at the nerve centre of wide debates about the nature of the Republic, French national identity and indeed of France's colonial past. According to an IFOP opinion poll in November 2015, 87 per cent of French people agreed that was important to respect laïcité …

  • Fighters in the Shadows

    Robert GildeaBOOKFighters in the Shadows2015

    Robert Gildea's penetrating history of France during World War II sweeps aside the French Resistance of a thousand clichés. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris's liberation in 1944.

  • Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936–1945, by Simon Kitson

    Open AccessRobert Gildea, R N GildeaARTICLEThe English Historical Review2015

    There are competing stories of the French police under the German Occupation: one, that they were the implacable repressive arm of Vichy and the German authorities, arresting and deporting Jews; the other, that they were key players in the Liberation, their heroism marked by numerous plaques on the walls of Paris. A much more nuanced account is offered here by Simon Kitson, who has powerfully updated his 1997 thesis on the Marseille police. Marse…

  • The Transnational in the Local

    Open AccessRobert Gildea, Andrew TompkinsARTICLEJournal of Contemporary History2015Citada por: 6

    This article explores the case of the Larzac plateau in southern France which was the site of protests against the extension of a military base in the 1970s. It analyses the development of the site as a focus of local, national and transnational protest, drawing in post-1968 gauchistes in France and West Germany. After the cancellation of the military base the Larzac protest became a model for protest from Latin America to the Pacific against the…

  • Nicole Dombrowski Risser. France under Fire

    Robert GildeaARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    The exodus of French and other refugees before the lightning advance of the German armies in May–June 1940 is not an entirely new topic. Jean Vidalenc wrote a first study in 1957, and in 2007 Hanna Diamond published Fleeing Hitler: France, 1940. There is nevertheless still plenty of room for research and reconsideration, and Nicole Dombrowski Risser's book is very strong in a number of domains. First, Dombrowski Risser explores not only the exper…

  • Lettres de correspondants français à la BBC (1940-1943)

    Robert GildeaARTICLEVingtième Siècle Revue d histoire2014

    Cet article exploite un fonds de lettres adressées à la BBC par des correspondants français entre 1940 et 1943 et vise à contribuer au débat sur l'étendue de la résistance en France. Il défend la thèse de l'existence d'une « pénombre », soit d'une mouvance entre l'opinion publique et la résistance organisée des ombres qui chercha à reconstruire symboliquement la communauté nationale et à entamer un dialogue avec Londres sur le comportement des Al…

  • Europe's 1968

    James E Mark, Anette Elisabeth Warring et al.BOOKEurope's 19682013

    A 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. It throws new light on moments and movements which both united and divided the activists of Europe's 1968

  • Utopia and conflict in the oral testimonies of French 1968 activists

    Open AccessRobert GildeaARTICLEMemory Studies2013Citada por: 2Referências: 10

    There are two conflicting cultural memories of 1968: one that celebrates liberation and the other that condemns political violence and sexual excess. This article, based on interviews with five former 1968 activists in France, explores the ways in which they seek to navigate between their personal memories of becoming an activist, positive and negative group memories of being an activist, and the contested cultural memories of 1968, in order to m…

  • From Victory to Vichy

    Robert GildeaARTICLEThe English Historical Review2013

    The study of French First World War veterans is dominated by Antoine Prost’s three-volume Les Anciens Combattants et la société française, 1914–1939 (1977). It is therefore a brave historian with a case to make who returns to the same battlefield. Chris Millington takes on the mighty Prost with an argument that, far from underpinning the democratic values of the French Third Republic, the veterans were bitterly critical of the parliamentary syste…

  • French Muslims

    Robert GildeaARTICLEFrench History2011

    In this searching and lively analysis, Sharif Gemie asks what it is like to be a Muslim, and above all a Muslim woman, in contemporary France. This is not a new topic, but one which Gemie tackles with great alacrity through a consideration of struggles around the law of 2004 which in effect banned veil-wearing girls from state schools, and an in-depth study of four high-profile French Muslims who have set the pace in the debate on the place of Mu…

  • European Radicals and the ‘Third World’

    Robert Gildea, James Mark et al.ARTICLECultural and Social History2011Citada por: 3

    This article addresses the importance of Third Worldism/tiersmondisme as a source of inspiration for European radicals on both sides of the Iron Curtain 1958–73, focusing on the cases of France, the Netherlands and Hungary. Using both oral history and archival material, it considers the decline of domestic anti-fascist traditions as a source of revolutionary identity; the emergence of new political networks both within and outside Europe based on…

  • Voices of Europe's '68

    Robert Gildea, James MarkARTICLECultural and Social History2011Citada por: 1

    Keywords: 1968PoliticsHistoriographyActivismEurope

  • A Campaign in Defence of Higher Education

    Robert GildeaARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2011

    ‘A single spark can set fire to the prairie’, said Chairman Mao. In the case of this campaign against the government's attack on the higher education system in this country it was a placard in the ground-floor window of the office of Worcester College's French tutor which read ‘Students not Customers’. The tutor had carried it on the 10 November 2010 demonstration against education funding cuts and higher tuition fees and a passing student knocke…