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.
Black Abolitionists in Ireland
1st Edition
By Christine Kinealy
December 13, 2021
The story of the anti-slavery movement in Ireland is little known, yet when Frederick Douglass visited the country in 1845, he described Irish abolitionists as the most ‘ardent’ that he had ever encountered. Moreover, their involvement proved to be an important factor in ending the slave trade, and...
Emotions and Everyday Nationalism in Modern European History
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas Stynen, Maarten Van Ginderachter, Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas
December 13, 2021
This volume examines how ideas of the nation influenced ordinary people, by focusing on their affective lives. Using a variety of sources, methods and cases, ranging from Spain during the age of Revolutions to post-World War II Poland, it demonstrates that emotions are integral to understanding the...
Europe between Migrations, Decolonization and Integration (1945-1992)
1st Edition
Edited
By Giuliana Laschi, Valeria Deplano, Alessandro Pes
December 13, 2021
This monograph addresses mobility and migrations as contributing phenomena in shaping contemporary Europe after 1945, in connection with decolonisation and the creation of the European Community. The disappearing of the colonial empires caused a large movement of people (former colonizers as well ...
Steamship Nationalism: Ocean Liners and National Identity in Imperial Germany and the Atlantic World
1st Edition
By Mark A. Russell
December 13, 2021
Steamship Nationalism is a cultural, social, and political history of the S.S. Imperator, Vaterland, and Bismarck. Transatlantic passenger steamships launched by the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) between 1912 and 1914, they do not enjoy the international fame of ...
Thessaloniki: A City in Transition, 1912–2012
1st Edition
Edited
By Dimitris Keridis, John Kiesling
December 13, 2021
This book shares the conclusions of a remarkable conference marking the centennial of Thessaloniki’s incorporation into the Greek state in 1912. Like its Roman and Byzantine predecessors, Ottoman Salonica was the metropolis of a huge, multi-ethnic Balkan hinterland, a center of modernization/...
Transatlantic Anarchism during the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936-1939: Fury Over Spain
1st Edition
By Morris Brodie
December 13, 2021
Between 1936 and 1939, the Spanish Civil War showcased anarchism to the world. News of the revolution in Spain energised a moribund international anarchist movement, and activists from across the globe ¿ocked to Spain to ¿ght against fascism and build the revolution behind the front lines. Those ...
Free Trade and Social Welfare in Europe: Explorations in the Long 20th Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucia Coppolaro, Lorenzo Mechi
September 30, 2021
This book deals with the historical relationship between international trade liberalisation – one of the backbones of globalisation – and the development of social welfare. In Europe the issue has regularly been at the centre of the political debate for at least two centuries, and still nowadays it...
Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
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By Włodzimierz Borodziej, Joachim von Puttkamer
September 30, 2021
Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century challenges widespread conceptions of Central and Eastern European countries as merely countries of origin. It sheds light on their experience of immigration and the establishment of refugee regimes at different ...
The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual Culture of the News, 1842-1870
1st Edition
By Thomas Smits
August 02, 2021
This book looks at the roots of a global visual news culture: the trade in illustrations of the news between European illustrated newspapers in the mid-nineteenth century. In the age of nationalism, we might suspect these publications to be filled with nationally produced content, supporting a ...
1989 and the West: Western Europe since the End of the Cold War
1st Edition
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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 ...
Fascism and Ideology: Italy, Britain, and Norway
1st Edition
By Salvatore Garau
June 30, 2021
This book develops a number of new conceptual tools to tackle some of the most hotly debated issues concerning the nature of fascism, using three profoundly different national contexts in the inter-war years as case studies: Italy, Britain and Norway. It explores how fascist ideology was the result...
Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Enda Delaney, Breandán Mac Suibhne
June 30, 2021
Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to land activist Michael Davitt, the starving made little or no ...