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R.J.W. Evans

R. J. W. Evans is a Fellow of Oriel College and Regius Professor of History Emeritus at Oxford. He is the author of Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Central Europe, 
c. 1683–1867, among other books.
 (June 2020)

A Liberal Empire? Ruled from the Spas?

A Liberal Empire? Ruled from the Spas?

The Grand Spas of Central Europe: A History of Intrigue, Politics, Art, and Healing

by David Clay Large

The Habsburg Empire: A New History

by Pieter M. Judson

March 23, 2017 issue

The Most Catastrophic War

The Most Catastrophic War

Did the peacebreakers of 1914 “sleepwalk” into hostilities?

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

by Margaret MacMillan

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

by Charles Emmerson

The Russian Origins of the First World War

by Sean McMeekin

July 1914: Countdown to War

by Sean McMeekin

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

by Christopher Clark

Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

by Max Hastings

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February 6, 2014 issue

Exchange

Walter Daum

Imperialism and World War I: An Exchange

April 3, 2014 issue

The Magic of Bohemia

Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes in the Life of a European City

by Peter Demetz

The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History

by Derek Sayer

October 21, 1999 issue

Kings and the Queen of the Arts

Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe

by Jonathan Brown

Court, Cloister, and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe 1450-1800

by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

May 23, 1996 issue

The Sun Also Sets

The Last Descendant of Aeneas: The Hapsburgs and the Mythic Image of the Emperor

by Marie Tanner

February 17, 1994 issue

Unwarlike Warriors

Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848–1918

by István Deák

August 16, 1990 issue

Virtuoso

Renaissance Essays

by Hugh Trevor-Roper

January 30, 1986 issue

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