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.
Britain and Ireland from the Treaty to the Troubles: Independence and Interdependence, c. 1921-1973
1st Edition
By Richard Carr
March 06, 2025
Using extensive and fresh archival material, this book places the relationship between the United Kingdom and Ireland after 1921 in a new light, encouraging us to rethink the dominant narrative of conflict and strife. While the work does not shy away from the clear points of dispute, it contends ...
A Modern History of Andorra: Autonomy in the Pyrenean Borderlands
1st Edition
By Martyn Lyons
February 14, 2025
This book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe's micro-states nestled between France and Spain. Despite its medieval institutional framework, Andorra endured into the late 20th century without an army, police, currency, or customs barriers. The book uncovers how Andorra ...
The French-German Dynamic in an Age of Conflict, 1925–1963: Enemies, Collaborators, Friends
1st Edition
By Elana Passman
February 04, 2025
This book investigates the radical transformation of the relationship between Germany and France, neighbors whose border constituted one of the deepest fault lines of European history. For generations, the French and the Germans believed they were “eternal enemies,” and this myth of primordial ...
Gender, Emotion, and the Origins of Democracy in July Monarchy France: The Liberal Crucible
1st Edition
By Jeffrey B. Hobbs
December 31, 2024
This book provides a new perspective on the historical importance of a series of provincial rebellions in France after the Revolution of 1830. It demonstrates their crucial role in the development of popular ideas about liberty and democracy in modern France. Hobbs shows how the Duchesse de Berry’s...
Mussolini and the Rise of Populism: The Man who Made Fascism
1st Edition
By Spencer DiScala
December 18, 2024
This book analyzes the process by which Mussolini built the world’s first Fascist regime, describes how the Duce’s heirs have adapted to current political conditions, and how they have gone mainstream. With the rise of populism of the right in the new millennium, Benito Mussolini’s name has ...
Obscene Traffic: Prostitution and Global Migrations from the Italian Perspective (1890–1940)
1st Edition
By Laura Schettini
December 18, 2024
This book explores the early globalization of prostitution from the perspective of the Italian case. It is a story of prostitution, migration, and work, built through analyses of primary sources (the Italian archive of International Police) and covering a wide chronological period, from the end of...
Weapons Law in Western Europe, 1550-2020
1st Edition
By Gunner Lind
December 09, 2024
This book is a transnational history of European weapons law that utilizes the law and primary sources to trace the development from early portable firearms to modern-day weapons. Challenging many conventional assumptions, this book establishes that weapons control in the current sense is a new ...
Educational Internationalism in the Cold War: Plural Visions, Global Experiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Damiano Matasci, Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz
November 27, 2024
This edited volume delves into the intricate landscape of educational internationalism during the Cold War, providing an in-depth examination of its diverse forms, impulses, and global impacts. Through multilingual archival research, the chapters uncover a variety of experiences that have fostered ...
Antifascism After Hitler: East German Youth and Socialist Memory, 1949-1989
1st Edition
By Catherine Plum
October 14, 2024
Antifascism After Hitler investigates the antifascist stories, memory sites and youth reception that were critical to the success of political education in East German schools and extracurricular activities. As the German Democratic Republic (GDR) promoted national identity and socialist ...
European Border Regions in Comparison: Overcoming Nationalistic Aspects or Re-Nationalization?
1st Edition
Edited
By Katarzyna Stokłosa, Gerhard Besier
October 14, 2024
Borders exist in almost every sphere of life. Initially, borders were established in connection with kingdoms, regions, towns, villages and cities. With nation-building, they became important as a line separating two national states with different “national characteristics,” narratives and myths. ...
Landscapes of the Western Front: Materiality During the Great War
1st Edition
By Ross Wilson
October 14, 2024
This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the ...
Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany: The "Euthanasia Programs"
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Benedict, Linda Shields
October 14, 2024
This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery, and how these were abrogated during the Nazi era. Nurses and midwives actively killed their patients, many of whom were disabled children and infants and patients with mental (and other) illnesses or intellectual disabilities. The book gives ...