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 Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1
1st Edition
By Joseph Jung
May 27, 2024
The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course ...
The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 2
1st Edition
By Joseph Jung
May 27, 2024
The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course ...
Germany, France and Postwar Democratic Capitalism: Expert Rule
1st Edition
By François Godard
May 23, 2024
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 ...
Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I
1st Edition
By Gary Edward Girod
April 02, 2024
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 ...
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
March 15, 2024
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. ...
Deciphering the European Investment Bank: History, Politics, and Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucia Coppolaro, Helen Kavvadia
January 29, 2024
Deciphering the European Investment Bank: History, Politics and Economics examines the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union’s financial institution and the largest lender and borrower among the International Financial Institutions. Since its establishment in 1958, the EIB has ...
European Integration and Disintegration: Essays from the Next Generation of Europe's Thinkers
1st Edition
Edited
By Nick Cohen, Ayana Dootalieva
January 29, 2024
European integration is an ambitious goal that attempts to reconcile grandiose visions for the future of Europe with complicated national attitudes toward unity. The added complexity of political crises, which have characterized the European project from its outset, makes the success of the ...
Print and the Celtic Languages: Publishing and Reading in Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton, 1700–1900
1st Edition
By Niall Ó Ciosáin
December 22, 2023
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 ...
Rethinking the History of Italian Fascism
1st Edition
Edited
By Giulia Albanese
September 25, 2023
In the last years, the discussion around what is fascism, if this concept can be applied to present forms of politics and if its seeds are still present today, became central in the political debate. This discussion led to a vast reconsideration of the meaning and the experience of fascism in ...
The End of Ottoman Rule in Bosnia: Conflicting Agencies and Imperial Appropriations
1st Edition
By Hannes Grandits
September 25, 2023
This book focuses on the end of four centuries of Ottoman rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1870s. After an introduction to the region and the political zeitgeist of the late 1860s and early 1870s, it examines in detail the dramatic years beginning in the summer of 1875, when the outbreak of ...
The Legacies of the Romani Genocide in Europe since 1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Celia Donert, Eve Rosenhaft
September 25, 2023
This book explores the legacies of the genocide of Roma in Europe after the end of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people labelled as ‘Gypsies’ were persecuted or killed in Nazi Germany and across occupied Europe between 1933 and 1945. In many places, discrimination continued ...
Postwar Continuity and New Challenges in Central Europe, 1918–1923: The War That Never Ended
1st Edition
Edited
By Tomasz Pudłocki, Kamil Ruszała
May 31, 2023
This book presents a multi-layered analysis of the situation in Central Europe after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The new geopolitics emerging from the Versailles order, and at the same time ongoing fights for borders, considerable war damage, social and economic problems and ...