Faculty Postholders
Professor Robert Evans
M.A., Ph.D., FBA
Regius Professor of History
Email: robert.evans@history.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Robert Evans works on the post-medieval history of central and eastern Europe, especially of the Habsburg lands, 1526-1918. He has a particular interest in the place of language(s) in historical development. His main current research commitment is to a history of Hungary, 1740-1945. He also studies the history of Wales.
Supervision Interests
As above, plus developments since 1918 in east-central Europe.
Selected Publications:
- ''Liberalism, Nationalism, and the Coming of the Revolution', and '1848 in the Habsburg Monarchy'' in The Revolutions in Europe, 1848-9: From Reform to Reaction. (Oxford, 2000) pp. 9-26, 181-206
- 'Wales in European Context: Some Historical Reflections' in Wales in European Context. (Aberystwyth, 2001) pp. 31
- 'Great Britain and East-Central Europe, 1908-48: A Study in Perceptions' in Great Britain and East-Central Europe. (London, 2002) pp. 31
- '1848 in Mitteleuropa: Ereignis und Erinnerung' in 1848: Ereignis und Erinnerung in den politischen Kulturen Mitteleuropas. (Vienna, 2003) pp. 31-55
- 'Language and State-building: The Case of the Habsburg Monarchy', Austrian History Yearbook. Vol xxxv (2004) pp. 1-24
- Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Central Europe, c. 1683-1867. (Oxford, 2006) 337pp.
- 'Europa in der britischen Historiographie' in Nationale Geschichtskulturen. Bilanz, Ausstrahlung, Europabezogenheit. (MainzStuttgart, 2006) pp. 77-93
- (ed.) Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment . (Aldershot, 2006) 265pp.
Future Publications:
- 'Die Oberlausitz, Böhmen und Europa. Internationale Aspekte von Reformation und Gegenreformation' in Die Oberlausitz im frühneuzeitlichen Mitteleuropa. (?) pp. ?
- 'Language and Politics: Bohemia in International Context, 1409-1627' in Confession and Nation in the Era of Reformations. Central Europe in Comparative Perspective. (Prague) pp. ??
- 'The Successor States' in Europe, 1914-45. (Oxford) pp. ??
- 'Císaøi bez øíše: Habsburkové a Reichsidee v 19. století' in Sbornik [Festschrift] Jaroslav Panek. (Prague)
- 'Introduction and Hungarians, Czechs and Slovaks: Some Mutual Perceptions' in Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe,1918–48 . (London, 2006) pp. ??
- 'The Politics of Language and the Languages of Politics: Latin and the Vernaculars in Eighteenth-Century Hungary' in [Festschrift T.C.W. Blanning]. (Cambridge, 2007)
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