Cosmopolitan Islanders

Resumen del libro

In Cosmopolitan Islanders one of the worlds 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.

Biografía del autor

Sir Richard J. Evans (Londres, 1947) es presidente del Wolfson College de Cambridge y Provost del Gresham College de Boston. Hasta 2014 fue Regius Professor de historia en la Universidad de Cambridge. En 1994 recibió la Medalla de Hamburgo del Arte y la Ciencia por servicios culturales a la ciudad. Sus libros previos incluyen In Defense of History (1997), Telling Lies about Hitler (2001), La llegada del Tercer Reich (Península, 2005), El Tercer Reich en el poder (Península, 2007), El Tercer Reich en guerra (Península, 2011) y La lucha por el poder (Crítica, 2017). Fue nombrado Sir en 2012.