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 Age of Anniversaries: The Cult of Commemoration, 1895-1925
1st Edition
Edited
By T. G. Otte
May 07, 2019
For historians centennial commemorations furnish an excellent heuristic tool for gauging late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century attitudes towards the past and the present. Centenary celebrations helped to revive, perpetuate and reinforce public perceptions of historical events and people in ...
The History of the European Migration Regime: Germany's Strategic Hegemony
1st Edition
By Emmanuel Comte
May 07, 2019
After the Second World War, the international migration regime in Europe took a course different from the global migration regime and the migration regimes in other regions of the world. From the bureaucratic and restrictive practices that prevailed in the late 1940s in most parts of Europe, the ...
German Reunification: Unfinished Business
1st Edition
By Joyce E. Bromley
April 11, 2019
In 1945, German families with more than 100 hectares (247 acres) of land were forced from their homes in the eastern sector by the Soviets, now in control of that area. These families were brutally evicted from their property and had their land expropriated. In the next 45 years, the GDR government...
Green Landscapes in the European City, 1750–2010
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Clark, Marjaana Niemi, Catharina Nolin
November 14, 2018
Green space is a fundamental concept for understanding modern and contemporary urban society, shedding light not only on the ecological development of cities but also societal relations, urban governance and planning processes. Closely linked to issues of environmental change, changing perceptions ...
Divided Village: The Cold War in the German Borderlands
1st Edition
By Jason B. Johnson
August 23, 2018
In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in West Berlin and spoke about his first visit to the Berlin Wall. Bush then went on to describe another German wall he saw after Berlin: "if anything, that wall was an even greater obscenity than its ...
Violence, Memory, and History: Western Perceptions of Kristallnacht
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin McCullough, Nathan Wilson
August 23, 2018
This edited collection delves into the horrors of November 1938 and to what degree they portended the Holocaust, demonstrating the varied reactions of Western audiences to news about the pogrom against the Jews. A pattern of stubborn governmental refusal to help German Jews to any large degree ...
The Summer Capitals of Europe, 1814-1919
1st Edition
By Marina Soroka
August 14, 2018
This book is about the European health spas of the nineteenth century: what they were, how they operated, what life was like there and how their functions evolved to the point where their original medicinal purpose was relegated to a secondary place by the unintended uses of spas as stages of ...
Resistance Heroism and the End of Empire: The Life and Times of Madeleine Riffaud
1st Edition
By Keren Chiaroni
July 27, 2018
This book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud – one of the last living leaders of the French Resistance. It considers the nature of the rebel hero in France’s founding historical narratives (revolution, insurrection, resistance) while asking what contributions ...
(Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918-1968: Senses of Belonging Below, Beyond and Within the Nation-State
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Couperus, Harm Kaal
June 28, 2018
This book offers a new perspective on the social history of twentieth-century Europe by investigating the ideals and ideas, the life worlds and ideologies that emerge behind the use of the concept of community. It explores a wide variety of actors, ranging from the tenants of London council estates...
Franco-Israeli Relations, 1958-1967
1st Edition
By Gadi Heimann
June 28, 2018
Since the Sinai campaign, France had been Israel's ally, providing advanced weapons and granting political support and economic aid. When Charles de Gaulle returned to lead France in 1958 during the Algerian War, Israeli leadership faced a challenge to maintain the friendship in light of the ...
Italy and Its Eastern Border, 1866-2016
1st Edition
By Marina Cattaruzza
June 28, 2018
This is the first scholarly work in Modern European History which elucidates consistently how border issues affect the history of nations and states in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book rethinks the Italian history of the last 150 years from the perspective of its eastern periphery and of the ...
Legacies of Violence in Contemporary Spain: Exhuming the Past, Understanding the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Ofelia Ferrán, Lisa Hilbink
June 28, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of the multiple legacies of Francoist violence in contemporary Spain, with a special focus on the exhumations of mass graves from the Civil War and post-war era. The various contributions frame their study within a broader reflection on ...