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.
Constructing a German Diaspora: The "Greater German Empire", 1871-1914
1st Edition
By Stefan Manz
February 07, 2017
This book takes on a global perspective to unravel the complex relationship between Imperial Germany and its diaspora. Around 1900, German-speakers living abroad were tied into global power-political aspirations. They were represented as outposts of a "Greater German Empire" whose ethnic links had ...
Britain and the Problem of International Disarmament: 1919-1934
1st Edition
By Carolyn J. Kitching
May 13, 2016
In the aftermath of the Great War, multilateral disarmament was placed at the top of the international agenda by the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant of the League of Nations. This book analyzes the naval, air and land disarmament policies of successive British governments from 1919 to 1934, ...
British Foreign Policy 1874-1914: The Role of India
1st Edition
By Sneh Mahajan
November 24, 2015
A challenging analysis of British Foreign Policy is provided at a time when Britain possessed the biggest Empire that humankind has ever known. In this Empire India had a unique position, comprising 97 per cent of Britain's Asiatic Empire. All British statesmen deemed it essential to maintain their...
Totalitarian Dictatorship: New Histories
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniela Baratieri, Mark Edele, Giuseppe Finaldi
October 16, 2015
This book locates totalitarianism in the vastly complex web of fragmented pasts, diverse presents, and differently envisaged futures to enhance understanding of the fraught era in European history. It explores empirical ways to the resurgence of the concept of totalitarian dictatorship....
From Slave Trade to Empire: European Colonisation of Black Africa 1780s-1880s
1st Edition
Edited
By Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau
February 27, 2015
Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and...
Weimar Cities: The Challenge of Urban Modernity in Germany, 1919–1933
1st Edition
By John Bingham
December 22, 2014
Weimar Cities explores Germany's efforts to come to grips with its great cities after World War I; by extension the book measures the feasibility of the postwar experiment that was the Weimar Republic. The book focuses particularly on the weakness, both local and national, that ...
Racial Theories in Fascist Italy
1st Edition
By Aaron Gillette
August 12, 2014
Racial Theories in Fascist Italy examines the role played by race and racism in the development of Italian identity during the fascist period. The book examines the struggle between Mussolini, the fascist hierarchy, scientists and others in formulating a racial persona that would gain wide ...
Facing Fascism: The Conservative Party and The European Dictators 1935 -1940
1st Edition
By Nick Crowson
February 25, 2014
This book examines the Conservative party's responses to the problems of fascism from 1935 - 1940. Crowson provides the historical context for the foreign policy of the period and examines the historiography of the Conservative party. He offers a new perspective on its policies and the reaction of ...
Stormtroopers and Crisis in the Nazi Movement: Activism, Ideology and Dissolution
1st Edition
By Thomas D. Grant
September 03, 2013
Containing illustrations from archival material, this book scrutinizes two sets of hitherto understudied records: * SA morale reports in the US National Archive which show what Nazi leaders themselves knew about their radical paramilitary wing* police reports on the stormtroopers, from the ...
The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office
1st Edition
By Hans-Adolph Jacobsen, Arthur L. Smith Jr.
September 20, 2012
The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office explores the struggle between entrenched diplomats in the Foreign Office and Party loyalists, who presumed that with the assumption of power in 1933 total state control was theirs....
The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony J. Heywood, Jonathan D. Smele
September 18, 2012
2005 marks the centenary of Russia’s ‘first revolution’ - an unplanned, spontaneous rejection of Tsarist rule that was a response to the ‘Bloody Sunday’ massacre of 9th January 1905. A wave of strikes, urban uprisings, peasant revolts, national revolutions and mutinies swept across the Russian ...
German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory
1st Edition
Edited
By Volker Langbehn
July 27, 2012
There is no overarching master narrative in understanding the history of German colonialism, and over the past decade, the study of Germany’s colonial past has experienced a dramatic transformation in its scope of inquiry. Influenced by new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of ...