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.
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 16, 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 ...
Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I
1st Edition
By Gary Edward Girod
October 26, 2025
Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I examines the rapid development and expansion of agencies and governmental power to monitor and control the homefront in Britain and France during World War I. It documents the rapid shift in focus from the feared but ...
The Early Years of Ireland in the European Economic Community: Managing Membership
1st Edition
By Aoife Keogh
September 30, 2025
Ireland’s accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973 provided great opportunities, as well as significant challenges to its relatively small civil service. This book traces Ireland’s internal adaptation to managing membership. The long wait for accession to the EEC ...
Narrating the Sex Trade: Bodies and Boundaries from the Eastern Borderlands of Europe
1st Edition
By Tracie L. Wilson
September 29, 2025
Examining a range of sex trade accounts from state documents, activist groups, folk narratives, and key figures in Polish, Ukrainian, and Yiddish literature, this book applies new materialist perspectives to cultural history, coloniality, and imperiality in the study of Europe’s eastern borderlands...
Print and the Celtic Languages: Publishing and Reading in Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton, 1700–1900
1st Edition
By Niall Ó Ciosáin
September 29, 2025
This book is a study of the print cultures of the four principal Celtic languages — Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton — in the crucial period between 1700 and 1900. Over the past four centuries, the Celtic languages of northwest Europe have followed contrasting paths of maintenance and decline. This ...
Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the “Third Reich,” the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941–1963
1st Edition
By Stefanie Coché
September 29, 2025
The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany’s age of extremes. The book shows that - even during the Nazi killing of the sick - relatives played an even more important role in most admissions than doctors and the authorities. ...