Evans, Richard J(ohn)

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EVANS, Richard J(ohn)

EVANS, Richard J(ohn). British, b. 1947. Genres: Women's studies and issues, History, Politics/Government, Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography. Career: Stirling University, Scotland, lecturer in history, 1972-76; University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, lecturer, 1976-83, professor of European history, 1983-89; Columbia University, visiting associate professor of European history, 1980; University of London, Birkbeck College, professor of history, 1989-98, vice-master, 1993-98, acting master, 1997; Cambridge University, professor of modern history, 1998-; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, fellow, 1998-. Publications: The Feminist Movement in Germany, 1894-1933, 1976; The Feminists: Women's Emancipation Movements in Europe, America, and Australasia, 1840-1920, 1977; Sozialdemokratie und Frauenemanzipation im Deutschen Kaiserreich, 1979; Comrades and Sisters, 1987; Steam Cars, 1987; Rethinking German History, 1987; Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910, 1987; Kneipengesprache im Kaiserreich, 1989; In Hitler's Shadow, 1989; Proletarians and Politics, 1990; Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1600-1989, 1996; Rereading German History: From Unification to Reunification, 1800-1995, 1997; In Defence of History, 1997; Tales from the German Underworld, 1998; Lying about Hitler: History, Holocaust and the David Irving Trial, 2001; The Coming of the Third Reich, 2003. EDITOR: Society and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany, 1978; (with W.R. Lee) The German Family (essays), 1981; The German Working Class, 1888-1933, 1982; (with Lee) The German Peasantry, 1985; (with D. Geary) The German Unemployed, 1986; The German Underworld, 1988; (with D. Blackbourn) The German Bourgeoisie, 1991.