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.
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 ...
The Red Brigades and the Discourse of Violence: Revolution and Restoration
1st Edition
By Marco Briziarelli
October 14, 2024
This book explores the communicative practices of the Italian radical group Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, or BR), the relationship the group established with the Italian press, and the specific social historical context in which the BR developed both its own self-understanding and its ...
Turkey and the Rescue of European Jews
1st Edition
By I. Izzet Bahar
October 14, 2024
This book exposes Turkish policies concerning European Jews during the Hitler era, focusing on three events: 1. The recruitment of German Jewish scholars by the Turkish government after Hitler came to power, 2. The fate of Jews of Turkish origin in German-controlled France during WWII, 3. The ...
West Germans and the Nazi Legacy
1st Edition
By Caroline Sharples
October 14, 2024
This book constitutes a new history of the complex memory cultures that persisted within post-war West Germany, examining the attitudes of ordinary people to the second wave of Nazi war crimes trials ushered in during the 1960s. It explores responses to the prospect of continuing investigations, ...
Discussing Pax Germanica: The Rise and Limits of German Hegemony in European Integration
1st Edition
Edited
By Emmanuel Comte, Fernando Guirao
October 08, 2024
Discussing Pax Germanica: The Rise and Limits of German Hegemony in European Integration examines and reconsiders Germany’s paramount role in shaping European integration from the aftermath of World War II to the present. This volume meticulously explores the ascendancy of Germany to a dominant ...
Building Europe Through Education, Building Education Through Europe: Actors, Spaces and Pedagogies in a Historical Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz, Simone Paoli
September 27, 2024
This edited volume explores the role of education in the process of European cooperation and integration as it has been conceived and realized in the late 20th century and the early 21st century, as well as the mirror of this narrative: the effects of the European integration process on education. ...