Cosmopolitan Islanders

British Historians and the European Continent

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ID19923563
AuthorsRichard J Evans (0000-0002-3186-7243, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Sir Richard J Evans FBA FRSL FRHistS
Year2009
Publication date2009-05-14
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueCosmopolitan Islanders (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511581106
OpenAlexW610966098
Open LibraryOL24009750M
ISBN9780511581106
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDmbD5gOZsNvAC
LanguageEN
Citations received18

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

Cosmopolitanism · Enlightenment · Ethnology · Genealogy · Political science · Politics · Australian History and Society · History · Law · Scottish History and National Identity · British Foreign public opinion · Europe · Great britain · Historians · Historiography

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