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How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation
The Third Reich in Power examines how it was possible for a group of ideological obsessive to remould a society famous for its sophistication and comp...
Society and Politics in the Cholera Years
"A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster." -Roy Porter, London Review of Books W...
Seventy years after its demise, historian Richard J. Evans charts the ways our understanding of the Third Reich has changed....
Nineteenth-Century Germany and the Origins of the Third Reich
In Rethinking German History, first published in 1987, Richard J. Evans argues for a social-historical approach to the German past that pays equal att...
How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster
The final book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans's The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany fro...
The acclaimed and comprehensive account of Germany's transformation under Hitler's total rule and the inexorable march to war, by the author of The Co...
How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany
Richard Evans' brilliant book unfolds perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a sing...
The Third Reich at War; The Coming of the Third Reich; The Third Reich in Power
In 1900 Germany was generally viewed as one of the world's most progressive, dynamic and impressive nations. Ceaselessly inventive, in many ways at th...
One of England's best historians has written a millennial successor to E.H. Carr's What is History? At a time of deep scepticism about our ability to ...
Europe 1815-1914
An Economist Best Book of the Year “Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonder...
British Historians and the European Continent
A trenchant analysis of the evolution and motivations of British historians' fascination with the European continent....
In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last April 2000, the Hig...
Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987
The state has no greater power over its own citizens than that of killing them. This book examines the use of that supreme sanction in Germany, from t...
Nineteenth Century Germany and the Origins of the Third Reich
"The fact thatRethinking Germanywill force historians to reconsider their views, if not to discard them altogether, makes it a valuable addition to th...
The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
'Brilliant, a 5 out of 5 masterpiece' Evening Standard The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hi...
From Unification to Reunification 1800-1996
In Rereading German History, first published in 1997, Richard J. Evans draws together his seminal review essays on the political, economic, cultural a...
The final volume in Evans's trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a people's c...
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At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translated into more t...
Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910
Death in Hamburg presents a graphic portrayal of a great European city struck by one of the greatest urban disasters of the century: a cholera epidemi...
In the search for the causes of the First World War and the origins of Hitler’s ‘Third Reich’, the attention of historians has turned increasing...
The final volume in Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a p...
The idea that historical events, catastrophes in particular, didn't happen on their own but were driven by the hidden machinations of malign influence...
Socialism, Protest and the Working Class in Germany Before the First World War
This book - as a history of the German labor movement - offers a critique of the traditional emphasis on organization and ideology both through a surv...
Hailed as one of the most important works on the Hitler period, this is an “astonishing, compelling, and unnerving” portrait of life in Nazi Germa...
Essays on the Social History of the Family in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany
This book surveys the history of the German family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributions deal with the influence of industriali...
The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial
Richard J. Evans worked on the historical evidence on behalf of the defence during the Irving libel trial. In Telling Lies about Hitler, the author di...
The Faces of the Third Reich
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy “Evans . . . offers these eye-opening portraits of the heart of evil in an effort to underst...
Retracing Ancient Battlefields
Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources c...
From Foundation to Fourth Century Collapse
2 The Deinomenid Rulers in Fifth Century BC Literature -- 3 Ancient Literary Sources for the Deinomenid Tyranny -- 4 The Dating of the Damareteion Coi...
Women's Emancipation Movements in Europe, America and Australasia 1840-1920
Originally published in 1977, this book brings together what is known about liberal feminist and socialist movements for the emancipation of women all...
"In Hitler's Shadow, by noted historian Richard J. Evans, is a study of recent attempts by some West German historians to free the German conscience f...
Deviants and Outcasts in German History
This book, which was first published in 1988, deals with the neglected history of the lowest layers of German society, of marginal, outcast and devian...
West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past
This book is a study of recent attempts by some West German historians to free the German conscience from guilt about its Nazi past. These new revisio...
Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century
Through the means of four powerful and extraordinary narratives from the 19th-century German underworld, this book deftly explores an intriguing array...
Counterfactuals in History
Ê A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in ...
History and Topography
Syracuse was the largest and most powerful of all the cities established by the Greeks in Sicily. Its history, often violent but always colourful, is ...
A Political Biography
Though he may not have realised it, Gaius Marius caused through his political ambition the beginnings of the fall of the Roman Republic. Presenting th...