Routledge Histories
About the Book Series
The Routledge Histories is a series of landmark books surveying some of the most important topics and themes in history today. Edited and written by an international team of world-renowned experts, they are the works against which all future books on their subjects will be judged.
The Routledge History of the Senses
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Kettler, Will Tullett
June 26, 2025
The Routledge History of the Senses presents readers with an overview of the field. As well as pointing to directions for the future of the discipline, it illustrates the extent to which the subject offers a considerable space for the exploration of diverse historical topics through the lens of ...
The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Raiswell, Michelle D. Brock, David R. Winter
May 29, 2025
Covering a period of 2000 years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devil's role in the Western tradition and draws from history, religion, art, literature, media studies, and anthropology to provide a multifaceted view of the devil over time. The Routledge History of the ...
The Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World since 1500
1st Edition
Edited
By Kenneth Morgan
May 01, 2025
The Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World since 1500 provides a wide-ranging set of chapters, covering the sixteenth century to the present, which represent the main lines of current enquiry in maritime history. Over the past half-century, maritime history has become a significant ...
The Routledge History of American Science
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy W. Kneeland
April 13, 2025
The Routledge History of American Science provides an essential companion to the most significant themes within the subject area. The field of the history of science continues to grow and expand into new areas and to adopt new theories to explain the role of science and its connections to ...
The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas E. Feldmann, Xochitl Bada, Jorge Durand, Stephanie Schütze
April 13, 2025
The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration offers a systematic account of population movements to and from the region over the last 150 years, spanning from the massive transoceanic migration of the 1870s to contemporary intraregional and transnational movements. The volume ...
The Routledge History of Police Brutality in America
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Aiello
April 13, 2025
This handbook offers a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of police brutality in US history and the variety of ways it has manifested itself. Police brutality has been a defining controversy of the modern age, brought into focus most readily by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis ...
The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States Since 1775
1st Edition
Edited
By Cara Lea Burnidge, Lauren Frances Turek
December 30, 2024
Drawing together history and recent historiography, this volume offers a reference work for understanding how religion influenced politics and how politics shaped religion in the United States from the American Revolution through to the present day. The book brings together some of the most ...
The Routledge History of Crime in America
1st Edition
Edited
By James Campbell, Vivien Miller
December 27, 2024
Covering a broad chronology from the colonial era to the present, this volume’s 28 chapters reflect the diverse approaches, interests and findings of an international group of new and established scholars working on American crime histories today. The book is organized around major themes in ...
The Routledge History of Loneliness
1st Edition
Edited
By Katie Barclay, Elaine Chalus, Deborah Simonton
December 19, 2024
The Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development across cultures from the seventeenth century to the present. Bringing together thirty scholars from various disciplines, including history, anthropology, ...
The Routledge History of the First World War
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul R. Bartrop
August 27, 2024
The Routledge History of the First World War is a work which, in a single volume, covers a range of major themes and issues relating to that conflict. Providing a comprehensive but readily accessible reference work examining the First World War, in accordance with a broad range of themes, this book...
The Routledge History of Irish America
1st Edition
Edited
By Cian T. McMahon, Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan
July 23, 2024
This volume gathers over 40 world-class scholars to explore the dynamics that have shaped the Irish experience in America from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the early 1600s to the present, over 10 million Irish people emigrated to various points around the globe. Of them, more...
The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World
1st Edition
Edited
By Katie Barclay, Peter N. Stearns
May 27, 2024
The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World brings together a diverse array of scholars to offer an overview of the current and emerging scholarship of emotions in the modern world. Across thirty-six chapters, this work enters the field of emotion from a range of angles. Named emotions ...