- Robert J. Young
Robert J. Young (born 1942) has been a professor of History at the
University of Winnipeg since 1967. He specializes in 20th centuryEurope an international politics. A graduate of theUniversity of Saskatchewan and theLondon School of Economics , Young's doctoraldissertation was written under the supervision ofDonald Watt . It was published byHarvard University Press as "In Command of France: French Foreign Policy and Military Planning, 1933-1940". Over the last forty years, Professor Young, a Canadian, has written numerous academic books and articles including "France and the Origins of the Second World War" and "Louis Barthou : Power and Pleasure". Throughout, he has consistently rejected the "la décadence" thesis that the allegeddecadence ofFrance in the1930s made theFall of France inevitable. [ [http://history.uwinnipeg.ca/Young.htm Robert Young ] ]Work
*"Preparations for Defeat: French War Doctrine in the Inter-War Period" pages 155-172 from "Journal of European Studies", Issue #2, June 1972.
*"The Aftermath of Munich: The Course of French Diplomacy, October 1938 to March 1939" pages 305-322 from "French Historical Studies", Fall 1973.
*"The Strategic Dream: French Air Doctrine in the Inter-War Period, 1919-1939" pages 31-42 from "Journal of Contemporary History", October 1974.
*"In Command of France: French Foreign Policy and Military planning, 1933-1940", Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1978, ISBN 0674445368.
*"La Guerre de Longue Durée: Some Reflections on French Strategy and Diplomacy in the 1930s" pages 41-64 from "General Staffs and Diplomacy Before the Second World War" edited by Adrian Preston, London: Colm Helm, 1978.
*"French Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials", Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1981, ISBN 0842021787.
*"French Military Intelligence and Nazi Germany" pages 271-309 from "Knowing One's Enemies: Intelligence Assessment Before the Second World War" edited by Ernest May, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
*"The Use and Abuse of Fear: France and the Air Menance in the 1930s" pages 88-109 from "Intelligence and National Security", Issue #4, 1987.
*"Power and Pleasure : Louis Barthou and the Third French Republic", Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991, ISBN 0773508635.
*"France and the Origins of the Second World War", St. Martin's Press: New York, 1996, ISBN 9 780312 161866
*“In the Eye of the Beholder: The Cultural Representation of France and Germany by the New York Times 1939-1940” pages 245-268 from "The French Defeat of 1940 Reassessments" edited by Joel Blatt, Berghahn Books, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, 1998, ISBN 1-57181-109-5.
*“A Douce and Dextrous Persuasion: French Propaganda and Franco-American Relations in the 1930s” pages 195-214 from "French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940 The Decline and Fall of A Great Power" edited by Robert Boyce, London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 1998, ISBN 0-415-15039-6.
*"Marketing Marianne : French Propaganda in America, 1900-1940", New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2004, ISBN 0813533775.
*"An Uncertain Idea of France : Essays and Reminiscence on the Third Republic", New York : P. Lang, 2005, ISBN 0820474819.References
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