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HistoryDecember 29, 2020
What Can We Learn From the 1918 Pandemic?
A recent history of the pandemic illuminates not just parallels with our moment but how a public health crisis can become a political one as well.
Richard J. Evans
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HistoryDecember 17, 2019
The Deep Roots of Liberal Democracy’s Crisis
A new history of North Atlantic democracies argues that they were already undergoing a serious crisis more than four decades ago.
Richard J. Evans
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October 4, 2018
The German Century
A new book documents the ordinary lives of Germans caught in a country and century marked by regime change, economic catastrophe, and war.
Richard J. Evans
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HistoryApril 25, 2018
A History of 19th-Century Britain Without the People
David Cannadine’s Victorious Century focuses on high politics to the exclusion of nearly everything else.
Richard J. Evans
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February 1, 2018
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HistoryFebruary 28, 2017
The Ways to Destroy Democracy
A new biography of Hitler offers us a warning from history.
Richard J. Evans
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Books and IdeasMarch 27, 2012
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Non-fictionMay 17, 2007
Why It Happened the Way It Did
Ian Kershaw’s latest work analyzes ten decisions that shaped the outcome of World War II.
Richard J. Evans
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Non-fictionDecember 20, 2006
Parasites of Plunder?
Hitler’s Beneficiaries advances a controversial, deeply flawed argument that Germans failed to revolt against the Nazis because Hitler established a welfare state built on plunder.
Richard J. Evans