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.
Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe: The Influence of Smaller Powers
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurien Crump, Susanna Erlandsson
June 30, 2021
The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. ...
Oil Exploration, Diplomacy, and Security in the Early Cold War: The Enemy Underground
1st Edition
By Roberto Cantoni
June 30, 2021
The importance of oil for national military-industrial complexes appeared more clearly than ever in the Cold War. This volume argues that the confidential acquisition of geoscientific knowledge was paramount for states, not only to provide for their own energy needs, but also to buttress ...
Circles of the Russian Revolution: Internal and International Consequences of the Year 1917 in Russia
1st Edition
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By Łukasz Adamski, Bartłomiej Gajos
March 31, 2021
This volume provides the English-speaking reader with little-known perspectives of Central and Eastern European historians on the topic of the Russian Revolution. Whereas research into the Soviet Union’s history has flourished at Western universities, the contribution of Central and Eastern ...
Fighting the Cold War in Post-Blockade, Pre-Wall Berlin: Behind Enemy Lines
1st Edition
By Mark Fenemore
March 31, 2021
As fought in 1950s Berlin, the cold war was a many-headed monster. Winning stomachs with enticing consumption was as important as winning hearts and minds with persuasive propaganda. Demonstrators not only fought the police in the streets; they were swayed one way or another by cultural competition...
Strange Allies: Britain, France and the Dilemmas of Disarmament and Security, 1929-1933
1st Edition
By Andrew Webster
March 31, 2021
Strange Allies examines three intersecting themes of fundamental importance to the international history of the period between the two world wars. First, and most broadly, it is a study of the international history of the pivotal ‘hinge years’, running from the onset of the Depression in late 1929 ...
Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past
1st Edition
Edited
By Róisín Healy
December 18, 2020
The "new mobilities paradigm" which emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century has identified mobility as a process intrinsic to the human experience and fundamental to the formation of social and political structures. This volume breaks new ground by demonstrating the role of the journey...
Alan S. Milward and Contemporary European History: Collected Academic Reviews
1st Edition
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By Fernando Guirao, Frances M.B. Lynch
September 30, 2020
Alan S. Milward was a renowned historian of contemporary Europe. In addition to his books, as well as articles and chapters in edited books, he also wrote nearly 250 book reviews and review articles, some in French and German, which were published in journals world-wide. Taken together they reveal ...
Food and Age in Europe, 1800-2000
1st Edition
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By Tenna Jensen, Caroline Nyvang, Peter Scholliers, Peter Atkins
September 30, 2020
People eat and drink very differently throughout their life. Each stage has diets with specific ingredients, preparations, palates, meanings and settings. Moreover, physicians, authorities and general observers have particular views on what and how to eat according to age. All this has changed ...
National indifference and the History of Nationalism in Modern Europe
1st Edition
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By Maarten van Ginderachter, Jon Fox
September 30, 2020
National indifference is one of the most innovative notions historians have brought to the study of nationalism in recent years. The concept questions the mass character of nationalism in East Central Europe at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Ordinary people were not in thrall to ...
Refugees, Human Rights and Realpolitik: The Clandestine Immigration of Jewish Refugees from Italy to Palestine, 1945-1948
1st Edition
By Daphna Sharfman
September 30, 2020
This book presents a multidimensional case study of international human rights in the immediate post-Second World War period, and the way in which complex refugee problems created by the war were often in direct competition with strategic interests and national sovereignty.The case study is the ...
Utopia and Dissent in West Germany: The Resurgence of the Politics of Everyday Life in the Long 1960s
1st Edition
By Mia Lee
September 30, 2020
Just as Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was seeking re-election on a campaign of "no experiments," art avant-garde groups in West Germany were reviving the utopian impulse to unite art and society. Utopia and Dissent in West Germany examines these groups and their legacy. Postwar artists built ...
Italy Before Italy: Institutions, Conflicts and Political Hopes in the Italian States, 1815-1860
1st Edition
By Marco Soresina
August 14, 2020
Italian unification is one of the pivotal events in European history but the period leading up to Risorgimento has often been analysed in less detail. This book focuses on the history of the Italian states between 1815 and 1860 focusing on state institutions, international relations, economic and ...