By Richard J. Evans
In Cosmopolitan Islanders one of many world's major historians asks why it really is that such a lot of admired and influential British historians have dedicated themselves to the research of the eu continent. Books at the heritage of France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and plenty of different ecu nations, and of Europe extra typically, have often reached the best-seller lists either in Britain and (in translation) in these eu nations themselves. but a similar is emphatically no longer precise in opposite. Richard J. Evans lines the evolution of British curiosity within the background of Continental Europe from the Enlightenment to the 20th century. He is going directly to talk about why British historians who paintings on elements of ecu heritage as we speak have selected to take action and why this wonderful culture is now less than probability. Cosmopolitan Islanders ends with a few reflections on what has to be performed to make sure its continuation sooner or later.
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This was also, of course, a period of reorientation in German historical memory, as a new generation of Germans took a much more critical and open view of the Nazi past than their parents had done. Earlier British scholars like Alan (later Lord) Bullock, the first serious biographer of Hitler, or Hugh Trevor-Roper (later Lord Dacre), author of The Last Days of Hitler, were still relatively isolated figures in their own day, immediately after the war. As Kershaw remarks: Since the 1960s, when the break with earlier historiography prompted a positive opening towards the outside world of scholarship .
The subject’, he says, ‘made no sense to historians trained in Germany, because it seemed to them to belong to “Church History”, a musty, marginal discipline in which they had no interest . . ’ Leaping across artificial institutional barriers has its risks; but it can also provide opportunities. When I was researching my own doctoral dissertation, on the feminist movement in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, in the 1970s, having chosen it as a guide to the strength or otherwise of liberal values in the decades before the triumph of Nazism, I ran into almost complete incomprehension from the archivists and historians I met in Germany (Claus Stukenbrock, the archivist who looked after me in Hamburg 28 unequal exchanges and who guided my subsequent trawls through the Hamburg State Archives over the following decades, was an honourable exception).
25 cosmopolitan islanders The history of National Socialism impinged very significantly on other European countries, not least on Britain, and so it is not surprising that so many British historians have taken an interest in it. If Sir Ian Kershaw’s biography of Hitler has been very warmly received in Germany, a comparable success has been achieved by Iron Kingdom, the history of Prussia written by Christopher Clark, which sold 80,000 copies within a year of its publication in German and secured its author a personal interview with the Federal President as well as a special feature in the country’s leading news magazine Der Spiegel.