Paul Jankowski (born July 8, 1950) is an American
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...
and the Raymond Ginger Professor of History Emeritus at
Brandeis University
, mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts"
, established =
, type = Private research university
, accreditation = NECHE
, president = Ronald D. Liebowitz
, ...
.
Raised in Europe and the United States, Jankowski attended
Balliol College, Oxford for both his undergraduate and graduate degrees, completing his doctoral dissertation on
Simon Sabiani and the rise of
fascism
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy an ...
and the French
Parti Populaire Français
The French Popular Party (french: Parti populaire français) was a French fascist and anti-semitic political party led by Jacques Doriot before and during World War II. It is generally regarded as the most collaborationist party of France.
...
in
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...
.
Jankowski specializes in the
history of modern France and
modern Europe, the
history of war
Military history is the study of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to local and international relationships.
Professional historians nor ...
, and the history of
international relations
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in the
interwar period. In addition to his study of Sabiani, he has published books on the
Stavisky affair,
political scandals in France
This is a list of major political scandals in France.
Until 1958
*1789: '' Réveillon riots'' - popular revolt from April 26- 28, in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Paris. Considered a precursor to the Storming of the Bastille and the French Revolu ...
, and the
Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun (french: Bataille de Verdun ; german: Schlacht um Verdun ) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north ...
. His latest book, ''All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War'', is a
narrative history
Narrative history is the practice of writing history in a story-based form. It tends to entail history-writing based on reconstructing series of short-term events, and ever since the influential work of Leopold von Ranke on professionalising histo ...
of several events and developments, primarily in Europe and the United States, between
November 1932
The following events occurred in November 1932:
November 1, 1932 (Tuesday)
*The Liberal Party won mid-term parliamentary elections in Cuba.
*Police in London clashed with National Hunger Marchers trying to present a petition to parliament aga ...
and
April 1933, including
Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, the
election
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office.
Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...
of
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
as president of the United States, and the first Japanese
attacks against China.
Publications
*''Communism and Collaboration: Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille 1919–1944'' (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989; ).
*''Cette vilaine affaire Stavisky. Histoire d'un scandale politique'' (Paris: Editions Artheme Fayard, 2000).
*''Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue'' (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002; ).
*''Shades of Indignation. Political Scandals in France, Past and present''. (Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 2008; ).
*''Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War'' (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014; ).
2015
*''All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War'' (New York: Harper, 2020; ).
External links
* Jankowski'
in ''The New York Times''
* "The Myths of Verdun": , via the official channel of the National World War I Museum and Memorial
* "Paul Jankowski on ''All Against All''," interview with Andrew Keen of KeenOn, on Now TV.
References
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
1950 births
Living people
Brandeis University faculty
American male non-fiction writers
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