Name: Cosmopolitan Islanders
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Author: Richard J. Evans
ISBN: 9780521137249

Type

Physical Book

Author

Richard J. Evans

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.85

ISBN

0521137241

ISBN13

9780521137249

Edition No.

Synopsis "Cosmopolitan Islanders "

In Cosmopolitan Islanders one of the world's leading historians asks why it is that so many prominent and influential British historians have devoted themselves to the study of the European continent. Books on the history of France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and many other European countries, and of Europe more generally, have frequently reached the best-seller lists both in Britain and (in translation) in those European countries themselves. Yet the same is emphatically not true in reverse. Richard J. Evans traces the evolution of British interest in the history of Continental Europe from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century. He goes on to discuss why British historians who work on aspects of European history in the present day have chosen to do so and why this distinguished tradition is now under threat. Cosmopolitan Islanders ends with some reflections on what needs to be done to ensure its continuation in the future.

Richard J. Evans

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Sir Richard J. Evans (born on September 29, 1947 in Woodford, London) is a British historian specialized in the history of Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. He was a professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London (1989-1998) and, subsequently, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge (1998-2014). In 2012, he was knighted for his contributions to historical research.

Among his most notable works is the trilogy on the Third Reich: "The Coming of the Third Reich" (2005), "The Third Reich in Power" (2007), and "The Third Reich at War" (2011). Additionally, he has published "The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914" (2017) and "Hitler and the Conspiracy Theories: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination" (2021). These works, framed within the genre of political history, offer a deep analysis of Nazi Germany and modern Europe.

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