Cosmopolitan Islanders: British Historians and the European Continent - Paperbackby Richard J. Evans (Author) In Cosmopolitan Islanders one of the world's leading historians asks why it is that so many prominent and influential British historians have devoted themselves to the study of the European continent. Books on the history of France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and many other European countries, and of Europe more generally, have frequently reached the best seller lists both in Britain and (in translation) in those European