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 Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: A Hungarian Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Gábor Gyáni
May 31, 2023
Recent collection of essays discusses the historical event and the multifarious consequences of the 1867 Compromise (Ausgleich, Settlement), conducted between the Habsburg monarch, Francis Joseph and the Hungarian political ruling class. The whole story has usually been narrated from a plainly ...
The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848): Reappraisals and Comparisons
1st Edition
Edited
By Paschalis M. Kitromilides
May 31, 2023
The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848) brings together twenty-one scholars and a host of original ideas, revisionist arguments, and new information to mark the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution of 1821. The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate the significance of the ...
Catalonia: A New History
1st Edition
By Andrew Dowling
August 19, 2022
Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus able to provide the reader with an ...
Garibaldi’s Radical Legacy: Traditions of War Volunteering in Southern Europe (1861–1945)
1st Edition
By Enrico Acciai
August 01, 2022
Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time. In that context, the Spanish Civil War and the armed resistances during the Second World War involved particularly large numbers of transnational fighters. The need to fight...
German Neo-Pietism, the Nation and the Jews: Religious Awakening and National Identities Formation, 1815–1861
1st Edition
By Doron Avraham
August 01, 2022
This book focuses on the national conceptualization of Judaism and Jews by German neo-Pietists from the early Restoration (1815) until the New Era (neue Ära, 1858-1861), at which point Prussia and other German states embarked on a liberal course. The book demonstrates how a certain understanding of...
Sinti and Roma in Germany (1871-1933): Gypsy Policy in the Second Empire and Weimar Republic
1st Edition
By Simon Constantine
August 01, 2022
This book concerns the persecution of the Sinti and Roma in Germany during the Second Empire (1871–1918) and Weimar Republic (1919–1933). It traces the ways in which discriminatory treatment towards 'Gypsies' developed in a state ostensibly committed to individual liberty and equal treatment under ...
The Rhine and European Security in the Long Nineteenth Century: Making Lifelines from Frontlines
1st Edition
By Joep Schenk
August 01, 2022
Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine’s (CCNR) efforts to secure the principle of freedom of navigation on Europe’s prime river. The book explores how the most fundamental change in ...
Child Migration and Biopolitics: Old and New Experiences in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Beatrice Scutaru, Simone Paoli
April 29, 2022
This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present day. Adopting biopolitics as a theoretical framework, the authors examine the complex interplay of structures, contexts and relations of ...
1989 and the West: Western Europe since the End of the Cold War
1st Edition
Edited
By Eleni Braat, Pepijn Corduwener
June 30, 2021
Back in 1989, many anticipated that the end of the Cold War would usher in the ‘end of history’ characterized by the victory of democracy and capitalism. At the thirtieth anniversary of this momentous event, this book challenges this assumption. It studies the most recent era of contemporary ...
Interwar East Central Europe, 1918-1941: The Failure of Democracy-building, the Fate of Minorities
1st Edition
Edited
By Sabrina Ramet
May 26, 2020
This monograph focuses on the challenges that interwar regimes faced and how they coped with them in the aftermath of World War One, focusing especially on the failure to establish and stabilize democratic regimes, as well as on the fate of ethnic and religious minorities. Topics explored include ...
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 ...