Routledge Studies in Modern History
Danuta Mostwin: A Life in Exile Between Europe and America (1921–2010)
1st Edition
By Beata Halicka
August 20, 2026
Exploring the life and contributions of Danuta Mostwin, a Polish-American social scientist, writer, and chronicler of immigrant experiences, this book traces her journey from wartime Poland through post-war exile in Britain and the United States. It highlights her intellectual achievements, ...
Palestine between Storm and Strife: Colonialism, Crisis, and Consequences (1947 to 2025)
1st Edition
By Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul
August 10, 2026
This volume offers a comprehensive historical, political, and analytical account of the Palestinian question, spanning from the critical years preceding the 1948 Nakba to the contemporary period. Covering nearly eight decades, the book examines the intersecting dynamics of colonialism, ...
Jewish Communal Advocacy in Post-War Australia
1st Edition
By Suzanne D. Rutland
August 03, 2026
A product of four decades of research, this volume examines the major issues that the Australian Jewish community has addressed since the end of World War II, focusing on the efforts of the community’s peak representative organisation, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. The book moves from ...
Deaf German Missionary Berta Foster (1939-2018) and Deaf Education in West Africa: A Woman in the Background
1st Edition
By Anja Werner
July 31, 2026
In 1960, twenty-one-year-old Berta Zuther left her life in West Berlin behind to join African American missionary Andrew Foster in Ghana, thus embarking on a journey that would span three continents and result in the establishment of schools for the deaf across Africa. Berta and Andrew were both ...
Eight Armies on the Gallipoli Peninsula
1st Edition
Edited
By Mesut Uyar
June 24, 2026
The Gallipoli campaign of the First World War seems to have been exhaustively studied by shelves of books and thousands of articles. This edited volume challenges this perception of completion, revealing extensive uncovered ground, misunderstandings, and even complete neglect in the historiography....
Subcultures as Active Agents of the Post-Communist Transition in Eastern Europe: The Bulgarian case
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Karakachanov
June 22, 2026
This edited volume explores the transformation of post-communist societies following the Bulgarian case in the period 1990s-2010s. By identifying, analysing, and typologizing the subcultural groups that became active agents of social change in Eastern Europe, the book brings forth an integrative ...
Institutional Bricolage, Property Rights, and Social Practices in the Colonial World
1st Edition
Edited
By José-Miguel Lana-Berasain
June 12, 2026
Emphasizing the emergence of new institutional realities from the encounter between colonizers and colonized people, this book highlights the capacity of indigenous communities, as well as settlers themselves, to shape and transform laws and legal figures originating in the metropolis. The chapters...
Women Fighting Apartheid: Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) and the Black Sash, 1952–1962
1st Edition
By Monica G. Fernandes
June 08, 2026
Drawing on new interviews and previously underused archival material, this book explores women’s anti-apartheid activism in South Africa and within broader transnational networks from 1952 to 1962 through a comparison of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) and the Black Sash. Despite ...
The Political History of British Aviation 1909 – 1949: Technology in a Liberal Democracy
1st Edition
By Peter Ewer
May 22, 2026
Ewer examines how British politics shaped the development of aviation in the first half of the twentieth century. He challenges narratives of simple technological failure or national decline, showing instead that aviation outcomes were shaped by political institutions, policy traditions, and ...
The Iranian Oil Crisis and Mossadegh in the Cold War, 1949-1953
1st Edition
By Jamil Hasanli
May 05, 2026
In the early 1950s, Iranian oil became a firebomb of the Cold War in the Middle East, creating one of the era's two major hot spots alongside Korea.This book examines the dramatic events surrounding Mohammad Mossadegh whose government unanimously passed legislation nationalizing the Iranian oil ...
Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews
1st Edition
By Gustavo Guzmán
April 16, 2026
This book examines the attitudes of Chilean President Salvador Allende and General Augusto Pinochet toward Jews and the State of Israel. Throughout his political career, Allende expressed solidarity with European Jews in the 1930s, supported the establishment of a Jewish state in the 1940s, and ...
Railways in the First World War, Volume 2
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Giuntini, Henry Jacolin
March 26, 2026
This book, the second in a two- volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organized by the International Railway History Association (IRHA), examines the relationship between the railways and the First World War from a global theoretical, methodological and geographical perspective. Although the...