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 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 ...
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/...