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  Dr. Seidman's research specialty is Modern France, Modern Spain, and Social/Individual History. He is most recently the author of

The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968, (Berghahn Books, 2004) as well as a comparative history, Workers against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona during the Popular Fronts (1936-38), (University of California Press, 1991), Japanese translation (1997), partial Greek translation (2006), and forthcoming Turkish translation (2009). Insubordinate Publications issued a paperback edition in 2001. His Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press (2002), Spanish-language edition by Alianza Editorial (2003).

     He has authored numerous articles, including "Making the French Unemployed Work, 1930–1936,"  "Towards a History Workers' Resistance to Work," and "Women's Subversive Individualism in Barcelona during the 1930s." [See this in French.] Other articles include "The Pre-may 1968 Sexual Revolution," Contemporary French Civilization (XXV (Winter/Spring, 2001) pp. 20-41; "Individualism in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War," Journal of Modern History, (March, 1996), pp. 63-82; "Revolutionary Collectivism: Parisian Poster Art in 1968," Contemporary French Civilization, (Winter-Spring, 1996), pp. 145-167; "Quiet Fronts in the Spanish Civil War" The Historian (Summer 1999); and "Agrarian Collectives during the Spanish Revolution and Civil War," European History Quarterly, Vol. 30(2), 2000.