Routledge Studies in Modern History
Eight Armies on the Gallipoli Peninsula
1st Edition
Edited
By Mesut Uyar
June 26, 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 08, 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 ...
The Boycott or the Bullet: A Global History of Debates over Nonviolence since 1850
1st Edition
By Doug McGetchin
March 25, 2026
The Boycott or the Bullet: A Global History of Debates over Nonviolence since 1850 examines debates within nonviolent movements, including labor movements in Europe, Gandhi’s Indian independence struggle, and Martin Luther King’s US civil rights campaigns. Behind the scenes, nonviolent activists ...
Writing Antifascist Resistance, 1939–44: History Through Last Letters
1st Edition
By Mercedes Camino
March 20, 2026
Writing Antifascist Resistance examines the final letters of five antifascist activists who faced execution during World War II, including three teenagers. From Julia Conesa and Guy Môquet, who were given mere hours to write before their firing squad executions, to Masha Bruskina, Mordechai ...
Railways in the First World War, Volume 2
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Giuntini, Henry Jacolin
February 27, 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 ...
Creating Holocaust Memory: Reworking Trauma for Future Generations
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Herskovitz, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
February 25, 2026
Creating "Holocaust memory" has been an evolving, ongoing process. This volume surveys developments in a number of major disciplines and social sectors, followed by case studies that each express the ongoing dynamics of Holocaust memory and commemoration in a particular field. Encompassing numerous...
Outdoor Adventures in the Soviet Union and the Post-Soviet Space: The Metamorphoses of Proletarian Tourism
1st Edition
By Alexander Statiev
February 18, 2026
Exploring the evolution of adventure tourism in Russia from imperial times to the present, this book highlights the distinctive features of Soviet non-commercial trekking, boating, climbing and skiing expeditions organised by urbanites during their annual vacations. This study, based on archival ...