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.
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 ...
The Age of Anniversaries: The Cult of Commemoration, 1895-1925
1st Edition
Edited
By T. G. Otte
May 07, 2019
For historians centennial commemorations furnish an excellent heuristic tool for gauging late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century attitudes towards the past and the present. Centenary celebrations helped to revive, perpetuate and reinforce public perceptions of historical events and people in ...
The History of the European Migration Regime: Germany's Strategic Hegemony
1st Edition
By Emmanuel Comte
May 07, 2019
After the Second World War, the international migration regime in Europe took a course different from the global migration regime and the migration regimes in other regions of the world. From the bureaucratic and restrictive practices that prevailed in the late 1940s in most parts of Europe, the ...
German Reunification: Unfinished Business
1st Edition
By Joyce E. Bromley
April 11, 2019
In 1945, German families with more than 100 hectares (247 acres) of land were forced from their homes in the eastern sector by the Soviets, now in control of that area. These families were brutally evicted from their property and had their land expropriated. In the next 45 years, the GDR government...
Green Landscapes in the European City, 1750–2010
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Clark, Marjaana Niemi, Catharina Nolin
November 14, 2018
Green space is a fundamental concept for understanding modern and contemporary urban society, shedding light not only on the ecological development of cities but also societal relations, urban governance and planning processes. Closely linked to issues of environmental change, changing perceptions ...
Divided Village: The Cold War in the German Borderlands
1st Edition
By Jason B. Johnson
August 23, 2018
In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in West Berlin and spoke about his first visit to the Berlin Wall. Bush then went on to describe another German wall he saw after Berlin: "if anything, that wall was an even greater obscenity than its ...
Violence, Memory, and History: Western Perceptions of Kristallnacht
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin McCullough, Nathan Wilson
August 23, 2018
This edited collection delves into the horrors of November 1938 and to what degree they portended the Holocaust, demonstrating the varied reactions of Western audiences to news about the pogrom against the Jews. A pattern of stubborn governmental refusal to help German Jews to any large degree ...
The Summer Capitals of Europe, 1814-1919
1st Edition
By Marina Soroka
August 14, 2018
This book is about the European health spas of the nineteenth century: what they were, how they operated, what life was like there and how their functions evolved to the point where their original medicinal purpose was relegated to a secondary place by the unintended uses of spas as stages of ...