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.
Weimar Cities: The Challenge of Urban Modernity in Germany, 1919–1933
1st Edition
By John Bingham
December 22, 2014
Weimar Cities explores Germany's efforts to come to grips with its great cities after World War I; by extension the book measures the feasibility of the postwar experiment that was the Weimar Republic. The book focuses particularly on the weakness, both local and national, that ...
Racial Theories in Fascist Italy
1st Edition
By Aaron Gillette
August 12, 2014
Racial Theories in Fascist Italy examines the role played by race and racism in the development of Italian identity during the fascist period. The book examines the struggle between Mussolini, the fascist hierarchy, scientists and others in formulating a racial persona that would gain wide ...
Facing Fascism: The Conservative Party and The European Dictators 1935 -1940
1st Edition
By Nick Crowson
February 25, 2014
This book examines the Conservative party's responses to the problems of fascism from 1935 - 1940. Crowson provides the historical context for the foreign policy of the period and examines the historiography of the Conservative party. He offers a new perspective on its policies and the reaction of ...
Stormtroopers and Crisis in the Nazi Movement: Activism, Ideology and Dissolution
1st Edition
By Thomas D. Grant
September 03, 2013
Containing illustrations from archival material, this book scrutinizes two sets of hitherto understudied records: * SA morale reports in the US National Archive which show what Nazi leaders themselves knew about their radical paramilitary wing* police reports on the stormtroopers, from the ...
The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office
1st Edition
By Hans-Adolph Jacobsen, Arthur L. Smith Jr.
September 20, 2012
The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office explores the struggle between entrenched diplomats in the Foreign Office and Party loyalists, who presumed that with the assumption of power in 1933 total state control was theirs....
The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony J. Heywood, Jonathan D. Smele
September 18, 2012
2005 marks the centenary of Russia’s ‘first revolution’ - an unplanned, spontaneous rejection of Tsarist rule that was a response to the ‘Bloody Sunday’ massacre of 9th January 1905. A wave of strikes, urban uprisings, peasant revolts, national revolutions and mutinies swept across the Russian ...
German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory
1st Edition
Edited
By Volker Langbehn
July 27, 2012
There is no overarching master narrative in understanding the history of German colonialism, and over the past decade, the study of Germany’s colonial past has experienced a dramatic transformation in its scope of inquiry. Influenced by new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of ...
Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy: From Unification to Fascism
1st Edition
By Axel Körner
August 15, 2011
With chapters on theatre and opera, architecture and urban planning, the medieval revival and the rediscovery of the Etruscan and Roman past, The Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy analyzes Italians' changing relationship to their new nation state and the monarchy, the conflicts between the ...
Trials of Irish History: Genesis and Evolution of a Reappraisal
1st Edition
By Evi Gkotzaridis
December 17, 2009
Bringing her original insights into theory and philosophy to bear upon the controversial question of revision in Irish history, Evi Gkotzaridis presents the first historical and theoretical examination of the trailblazer historians who, from 1938, spearheaded an unpoliticized Irish history. Drawing...
French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940: The Decline and Fall of a Great Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Boyce
May 07, 1998
French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940 outlines France's strategies for protection and appeasement during this period and places interwar relations in a larger European context. This book examines: * relationships with key countries such as Italy and Russia * the significance of interwar ...