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.
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 ...
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 ...