Routledge Studies in Modern British History
The British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation: 1943-1982
1st Edition
By Takeshi Sakade
September 25, 2023
Sakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went "from Empire to Europe" and argues rather that, following the Second World War, the key relationship was in fact trans-Atlantic. There is a commonly accepted belief that, during the twentieth century, British manufacturing...
Diplomatic Identity in Postwar Britain: The Deconstruction of the Foreign Office "Type", 1945–1997
1st Edition
By James Southern
January 09, 2023
This book seeks to understand the complex ways in which the Foreign Office adapted to the rise of identity politics in Britain as it administered British foreign policy during the Cold War and the end of the British Empire. After the Second World War, cultural changes in British society forced a ...
Provincial Police Reform in Early Victorian England: Cambridge, 1835–1856
1st Edition
By Roger Swift
January 09, 2023
The establishment of ‘new police’ forces in early Victorian England has long attracted historical enquiry and debate, albeit with a general focus on London and the urban-industrial communities of the Midlands and the North. This original study contributes to the debate by examining the nature and ...
The Development of British Naval Aviation, 1914–1918
1st Edition
By Alexander Howlett
January 09, 2023
The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) revolutionized warfare at sea, on land, and in the air. This little-known naval aviation organization introduced and operationalized aircraft carrier strike, aerial anti-submarine warfare, strategic bombing, and the air defence of the British Isles more than 20 ...
Lord Dufferin, Ireland and the British Empire, c. 1820–1900: Rule by the Best?
1st Edition
By Annie Tindley
September 26, 2022
This book explores the life and career of Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902). Dufferin was a landowner in Ulster, an urbane diplomat, literary sensation, courtier, politician, colonial governor, collector, son, husband and father. The book draws...
The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture
1st Edition
By Sarah Bartels
September 26, 2022
In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that Victorian England was ridden with spectres and learned magicians. Despite this ...
The Discourse of Repatriation in Britain, 1845-2016: A Political and Social History
1st Edition
By Daniel Renshaw
September 26, 2022
Examining responses to migration and settlement in Britain from the Irish Famine up to Brexit, The Discourse of Repatriation looks at how concepts of removal evolved in this period, and the varied protagonists who have articulated these ideas in different contexts. Analysing the relationship ...
Great Britain, the Dominions and the Transformation of the British Empire, 1907–1931: The Road to the Statute of Westminster
1st Edition
By Jaroslav Valkoun
August 29, 2022
The relations of Great Britain and its Dominions significantly influenced the development of the British Empire in the late 19th and the first third of the 20th century. The mutual attitude to the constitutional issues that Dominion and British leaders have continually discussed at Colonial and ...
Credit and Power: The Paradox at the Heart of the British National Debt
1st Edition
By Simon Sherratt
August 01, 2022
This book reveals the surprising role that credit, money created ex nihilo by financiers, played in raising the British government’s war loans between 1793 and 1815. Using often overlooked contemporary objections to the National Debt a startling paradox is revealed as it is shown how the government...
Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 1793–1815: Samuel Bentham and the Royal Dockyards
1st Edition
By Roger Morriss
August 01, 2022
During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of the royal dockyards. This book examines the role of the Inspector General of Naval Works, an Admiralty ...
Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora: Leaving the Cold Country
1st Edition
By Graeme Morton
August 01, 2022
Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm? The long nineteenth century was a period consistently cooler than now, and Scotland remains the coldest of the British nations. Nineteenth-century ...
The Casino and Society in Britain
1st Edition
By Seamus Murphy
May 30, 2022
This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the beginning of the First World War. The reader will gain a detailed knowledge of the history, culture, identity and participants within the British ...