Routledge Studies in Modern European History
About the Book Series
This path-breaking series examines particular events, movements and people involved in the making of contemporary Europe. Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has presented diverse maps of division and union, conflict, peace and revolution across shifting national and racial boundaries. The volumes in this series aim to re-frame the history of the continent and its place in the world as the millennium.
The Politics, Memory, and Commemoration of the Postwar Camps for Germans in Poland (1945-1949): Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence
1st Edition
Edited
By Piotr Madajczyk, Magdalena Lemańczyk, Paweł Popielinski
July 28, 2026
This book offers the first systematic comparative analysis of memory politics concerning post-war camps in Poland for the German population (and those classified as German). It examines how this difficult past has been framed, instrumentalised, and negotiated in Poland and Germany across changing ...
British Forces in Germany: A Transnational History of Soldiers, Families, and German Communities, 1945–2019
1st Edition
By Bettina Blum
July 27, 2026
From the end of World War II in 1945 until the drawdown in 2019, about two million British military personnel and their families were stationed in northwestern Germany. This book explores the social, cultural and political impact of this presence on both the military and the host communities. ...
In Search of Romanian Jewry Before, During, and After the Holocaust
1st Edition
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By Sylvia Hershcovitz, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
July 27, 2026
Scholarship about Romania and the Holocaust has slowly developed over the eight decades since the end of the Second World War, but there are many aspects that demand further investigation. Examples are studies dealing with gender, art, memorialization, literature, identity, and personal/...
The Cult of the Supreme Being and the Pursuit of a Republic of Virtue in the French Revolution
1st Edition
By John Whitworth
July 27, 2026
The Cult of the Supreme Being and the Pursuit of a Republic of Virtue in the French Revolution analyses one of several concentric themes in the context of the rapidly evolving political situation of 1793-1794, as well as dechristianisation, the décadaire cult and the Cult of Reason. In virtual form...
Financing the Franco Regime: The Financial Sector and Institutions in Spain, 1939–1975
1st Edition
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By Joaquim Cuevas, María A. Pons
July 07, 2026
This book analyzes the financial policies and institutions developed under the Franco regime over nearly four decades and how key actors – banks, savings banks, the foreign sector, the Bank of Spain, and public debt management – were used to support the regime’s economic objectives. Situating ...
From Democracy to Fascism: Hitler's German Citizenship
1st Edition
By Klaus E. Meyer
July 02, 2026
How did a democratic society turn fascist? This book explores the political dynamics of the Free State of Braunschweig from 1930 to 1933 surrounding Adolf Hitler’s appointment to civil service – a decision enabled by the traditional conservative parties that paved his path to German citizenship. ...
Black Abolitionists in Ireland, Volume 3
1st Edition
By Christine Kinealy
June 10, 2026
This volume traces the experiences of seven African American abolitionists who travelled to Ireland during the tumultuous years after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Eli Stokes, William Allen, Isaac Davison, William Mitchell, William Troy, James Cheeney Thompson, and Robert Maxwell Johnson. Despite...
Heroes, Traitors, and Survivors in the Imperial Borderlands: Military Mobilizations in Southeastern Europe, 1908 to 1923
1st Edition
By Jovo Miladinović
June 10, 2026
Heroes, Traitors, and Survivors redefines Southeastern Europe’s role in modern military history. Long dismissed as a “powder keg” of violence, the region emerges here as a crucial laboratory of military innovation, governance, and state formation in the early twentieth century. Spanning the Ottoman...
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Southern Europe: Policy, Economy and Institutional Transformation, 1950s-1980s
1st Edition
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By Lucia Coppolaro, Francesco Petrini, Leonida Tedoldi
June 09, 2026
Offering an interdisciplinary analysis of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank’s (WB) interventions in Southern Europe during a transformative period in the 20th century and focusing on Southern Europe as its geographical frame, this volume brings together leading scholars from ...
A Woman Political Prisoner in Fascist Slovakia: Unlearning Democracy
1st Edition
By Marína Zavacká
June 04, 2026
Mária Janšáková’s 1939 memoir offers a rare, deeply personal account of political repression in wartime Slovakia. Detailing her imprisonment in the Ilava detention camp, she records the harsh physical and psychological conditions of daily life – from solitary confinement in mouldy cells to ...
1989 in the East: Between Order and Subversion
1st Edition
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By Pascal Bonnard, Carole Sigman
April 15, 2026
1989 in the East revisits the processes that led to the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the USSR. This disintegration appeared to be the result of complex mobilisations where the repertoires of action, the institutional and non-institutional ties, the ...
France's Mediterranean Cold War: From Charles de Gaulle to François Mitterrand
1st Edition
By Nicolas Badalassi
April 09, 2026
This book explores how, following the Algerian War, the Mediterranean emerged as a key battleground of the Cold War for France. Between the 1960s and 1980s, France positioned itself as the United States’ most reliable ally in countering the Soviet Union’s attempts to establish a presence in ...