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.
Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands, 1815-2000: A Small Country on the Global Scene
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Liberalism in Pre-revolutionary Russia: State, Nation, Empire
1st Edition
By Susanna Rabow-Edling
June 30, 2020
Nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals were faced with a dilemma. They had to choose between modernizing their country, thus imitating the West, or reaffirming what was perceived as their country's own values and thereby risk remaining socially underdeveloped and unable to compete with Western ...
Propaganda, Persuasion and the Great War: Heredity in the modern sale of products and political ideas
1st Edition
By Pier Paolo Pedrini
June 30, 2020
How to persuade citizens to enlist? How to convince them to fight in a war which was, for many, distant in terms of kilometres as well as interest? Modern persuasion techniques, both political and commercial, were used to motivate enlistment and financial support to build a "factory of consensus". ...
The Mediterranean Double-Cross System, 1941-1945
1st Edition
By Brett Lintott
June 30, 2020
This book describes and analyzes the history of the Mediterranean "Double-Cross System" of the Second World War, an intelligence operation run primarily by British officers which turned captured German spies into double agents. Through a complex system of coordination, they were utilized from 1941 ...
The Peace Discourse in Europe, 1900-1945
1st Edition
By Alberto Castelli
June 30, 2020
This book charts ideas European intellectuals (mostly from Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy) put forward to solve the problem of war during the first half of the twentieth century: a period that began with the Anglo-Boer war and that ended with the explosion of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima...
Interwar East Central Europe, 1918-1941: The Failure of Democracy-building, the Fate of Minorities
1st Edition
Edited
By Sabrina P. Ramet
May 26, 2020
This monograph focuses on the challenges that interwar regimes faced and how they coped with them in the aftermath of World War One, focusing especially on the failure to establish and stabilize democratic regimes, as well as on the fate of ethnic and religious minorities. Topics explored include ...
Britain and the Cyprus Crisis of 1974: Conflict, Colonialism and the Politics of Remembrance in Greek Cypriot Society
1st Edition
By John Burke
September 11, 2019
This book examines the ideological and socio-political discourses shaping the remembrance and representation of Britain and the Cyprus conflict of 1974 within Greek Cypriot society. By combining the official with the popular and drawing on an extensive range of oral history interviews, this ...
The Nationalism of the Rich: Discourses and Strategies of Separatist Parties in Catalonia, Flanders, Northern Italy and Scotland
1st Edition
By Emmanuel Dalle Mulle
August 08, 2019
Based on rigorous analysis of the propaganda of five Western European separatist parties, this book provides in-depth examination of the ‘nationalism of the rich’, defined as a type of nationalist discourse that seeks to end the economic ‘exploitation’ suffered by a group of people represented as a...