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.
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...
Protecting Democracy from Dissent: Population Engineering in Western Europe 1918-1926
1st Edition
By Shannon Monaghan
July 29, 2019
In the aftermath of the First World War, the victorious powers – more or less liberal democracies – argued that democracy would bring peace to Europe because this was the only effective way for legitimate states, with governments based on the consent of the governed, to be organized. What the ...
1916 in Global Context: An anti-Imperial moment
1st Edition
Edited
By Enrico Dal Lago, Róisín Healy, Gearóid Barry
May 07, 2019
The year 1916 has recently been identified as "a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions." Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of empires, and thus collectively represent a global anti-imperial moment, which was ...
Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Liesbeth van de Grift, Amalia Forclaz
May 07, 2019
This book examines how rural Europe as a hybrid social and natural environment emerged as a key site of local, national and international governance in the interwar years. The post-war need to secure and intensify food production, to protect contested border areas, to improve rural infrastructure ...
Orphans and Abandoned Children in European History: Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicoleta Roman
May 07, 2019
In a world dominated by poverty, a central characteristic has been the plight of orphans and abandoned children. Over the centuries, State, Church and individuals have all attempted to tackle the issue, but can we trace any change over the course of time when it comes to the welfare system intended...
Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution
1st Edition
By Samantha Lomb
May 07, 2019
Upon its adoption in December 1936, Soviet leaders hailed the new so-called Stalin Constitution as the most democratic in the world. Scholars have long scoffed at this claim, noting that the mass repression of 1937–1938 that followed rendered it a hollow document. This study does not address these ...