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.
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
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000: A Small Country on the Global Scene
1st Edition
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By Ruud van Dijk, Samuël Kruizinga, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Rimko van der Maar
August 14, 2020
This book seeks to launch a new research agenda for the historiography of Dutch foreign relations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so in two important ways. First, it broadens the analytical perspective to include a variety of non-state actors beyond politicians and diplomats....
Bringing Cold War Democracy to West Berlin: A Shared German–American Project, 1940–1972
1st Edition
By Scott Krause
June 30, 2020
Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germany’s former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold War. This book unearths how this remarkable transformation resulted from a network of liberal American occupation officials, and returned émigrés, or ...
Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War: The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria
1st Edition
By Tomasz Kamusella
June 30, 2020
In mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims across the Iron Curtain to neighboring Turkey. It was the single largest ethnic cleansing during the Cold War in Europe after the wrapping up of the ...
Greeks without Greece: Homelands, Belonging, and Memory amongst the Expatriated Greeks of Turkey
1st Edition
By Huw Halstead
June 30, 2020
Faced with discrimination in Turkey, the Greeks of Istanbul and Imbros overwhelmingly left the country of their birth in the years c.1940–1980 to resettle in Greece, where they received something of a lukewarm reception from the government and segments of the population. This book explores the ...
Israel’s Path to Europe: The Negotiations for a Preferential Agreement, 1957–1970
1st Edition
By Gadi Heimann, Lior Herman
June 30, 2020
Relations between the new state of Israel and the European Union in the first twenty years of the Community’s existence were a major policy issue given the background of the Holocaust and the way the new nation was established. This book focuses on Israel-European Community relations from 1957 to ...