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.
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...
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Southern Europe: Policy, Economy, and Institutional Transformation, 1950s-1980s
1st Edition
Edited
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
May 27, 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
Edited
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 ...
Cultural Diplomacy in Southern Europe: Spain, Portugal and Greece in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Marició Janué i Miret, Eva March, José-Miguel Pacheco Castelao, Albert Presas i Puig
March 05, 2026
This book offers a comprehensive overview of how culture, science, technology and academic activity functioned as instruments of cultural diplomacy and soft power in Spain, Portugal and Greece during the interwar and Cold War periods. Cultural Diplomacy in Southern Europe is particularly timely due...
The Irish Free State and the National Army, 1922–24
1st Edition
By Jack Kavanagh
February 20, 2026
This account of the National Army during the Irish civil war tells its story from the divides created in the Republican movement by the Anglo-Irish Treaty to the development of a new military organisation capable of upholding the Treaty provisions and facilitating the establishment of a new state. ...
ETA and the “Basque Problem”: The View from London (1968–93)
1st Edition
By Niall Cullen
February 16, 2026
Drawing on extensive archival research at the UK National Archives, this volume examines how “London” (primarily British diplomats in Spain and officials at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) perceived the radical Basque nationalist group ETA's campaign of violence from 1968 to 1993. In the ...
The People, the Workers, and the Citizens: Antifascist Cultures and the Popular Front in France, 1934–1939
1st Edition
By Mattie Fitch
December 31, 2025
In the 1930s, activists with France’s Popular Front mobilized culture against fascism. Examining music, theater, film, art, and festivals in Paris, Marseille, and Rouen, this book analyses approaches to antifascism and how they varied and interacted across different regions and left-wing traditions...
Germany, France and Postwar Democratic Capitalism: Expert Rule
1st Edition
By François Godard
December 26, 2025
This book concentrates on the political economies of Germany and France in the period spanning between the end of the Second World War and the 1970s, with a subsequent consideration of Italy and Britain as ‘shadow cases’. European postwar accounts have never reconciled the thwarting of widespread ...
Refugees and Population Transfer Management in Europe, 1914–1920s
1st Edition
Edited
By Kamil Ruszała
December 25, 2025
This book provides a comprehensive study of refugee movements and population transfers across Europe during the First World War and the early postwar period. Drawing parallels with contemporary migration issues, the book serves a social and educational purpose by highlighting Europe's history of ...
Transnational Socialism and European Integration: The Socialist Group in the Early European Parliament
1st Edition
By Brian Shaev
November 18, 2025
This history of the Socialist Group in the early European Parliament covers its role in six policy areas that formed the core of postwar European integration: foreign policy, democracy and institutions, social policy, agriculture, migration and free movement, and cartel and competition policy. By ...