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Bertram Gordon
Mills College
bmgordon@mills.edu |
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| Bertram M. Gordon is professor of European History at Mills College, Oakland, California (USA). He has a doctorate from Rutgers University and regularly teaches a course entitled "Men, Women and Travel: Tourism in Europe Since the Renaissance." A specialist on World War II France, he has written on war-related tourism in that country ("Warfare and Tourism: Paris in World War II," Annals of Tourism Research, 25:3, July 1998, 616-638) and, more recently, the emergence of "mass tourism" and Mediterranean tourism. He has also written on tourism in relation to the May-June 1986 Paris student revolt and is currently writing a book, "Tourism in History: Meaning and Methodology." In 2001-02 he was Chercheur associé étranger at the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent, C.N.R.S., France. His books include "Collaborationism in France during the Second World War" (1980) and "The Historical Dictionary of World War II France: The Occupation, Vichy and the Resistance, 1938-1946" (1998). From 1999 to 2001 he was Provost (chief academic officer) at Mills College. He helped create the internet discussion list H-Travel in 2003 and is currently its Co-Editor. |
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