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 United Kingdom and Spain in the Eighteenth Century: Beloved Enemy
1st Edition
Edited
By Manuel-Reyes García Hurtado
September 23, 2024
This book seeks to bridge a gap in the historiography of Spain and Great Britain by arguing that while the eighteenth century witnessed periods of tension, conflict and hostility between the two powers, their relationship remained multifaceted and significant in other spheres. Throughout the ...
The Brandt Commission and the Multinationals: Planetary Perspectives
1st Edition
By Bo Stråth
August 26, 2024
Set against the backdrop of dramatic world order transformations across the 1970s and 1980s, this book examines the competing planetary perspectives of the Brandt Commission and the multinationals, arguing that the missed opportunities of these decades created a path for contemporary political and ...
Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe
1st Edition
By Péter Bencsik
May 27, 2024
This book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the history of passports, border surveillance, border crossing, and other elements of European border regimes in the 20th century. Border regime is interpreted widely, including inbound and outbound travels, permanent and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...