Routledge Studies in Modern History
Atlantic Crossroads: Webs of Migration, Culture and Politics between Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1800–2020
1st Edition
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By José Moya
January 09, 2023
Unlike most books on the Atlantic that associate its history with European colonialism and thus end in 1800, this volume demonstrates that the Atlantic connections not only outlasted colonialism, they also reached unprecedented levels in postcolonial times, when the Atlantic truly became the world’...
Children Born of War: Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
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By Sabine Lee, Heide Glaesmer, Barbara Stelzl-Marx
January 09, 2023
This volume presents research from an international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral research project in which 15 doctoral researchers explored a range of issues related to the life-course experiences of children born of war in 20th-century conflicts. Children Born of War (CBOW), children...
Engaging with Historical Traumas: Experiential Learning and Pedagogies of Resilience
1st Edition
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By Nena Močnik, Ger Duijzings, Hanna Meretoja, Bonface Njeresa Beti
January 09, 2023
This book provides case-studies of how teachers and practitioners have attempted to develop more effective ‘experiential learning’ strategies in order to better equip students for their voluntary engagements in communities, working for sustainable peace and a tolerant society free of discrimination...
Experiences of War in Europe and the Americas, 1792–1815: Soldiers, Slaves, and Civilians
1st Edition
By Mark Lawrence
January 09, 2023
This work seeks to offer a new way of viewing the French Wars of 1792–1815. Most studies of this period offer international, political, and military analyses using the French Revolution and Napoleon as the prime mover. But this book focuses on military and civilian responses to French Revolutionary...
Food History: A Feast of the Senses in Europe, 1750 to the Present
1st Edition
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By Sylvie Vabre, Martin Bruegel, Peter J. Atkins
January 09, 2023
This pioneering book elevates the senses to a central role in the study of food history because the traditional focus upon food types, quantities, and nutritional values is incomplete without some recognition of smell, touch, sight, hearing, and taste. Eating is a sensual experience. Every day and ...
Histories of Surveillance from Antiquity to the Digital Era: The Eyes and Ears of Power
1st Edition
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By Andreas Marklund, Laura Skouvig
January 09, 2023
Deploying empirical studies spanning from early Imperial China to the present day, 17 scholars from across the globe explore the history of surveillance with special attention to the mechanisms of power that impel the concept of surveillance in society. By delving into a broad range of historical ...
Labour and Economic Change in Southern Africa c.1900-2000: Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi
1st Edition
By Rory Pilossof, Andrew Cohen
January 09, 2023
This book explores the social and economic development of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi over the course of the twentieth century. These three countries have long shared and interconnected pasts. All three were drawn into the British Empire at a similar time and the formation of the ill-fated ...
Nietzsche, Heidegger and Colonialism: Occupying South East Asia
1st Edition
By R.B.E. Price
January 09, 2023
This text argues that Nietzsche’s idea of invalid policy that is believed to be valid and Heidegger’s concept of doubt as the reason for a representation are essentially the same idea. Using this insight, the text investigates vignettes from colonial occupation in Southeast Asia and its protest ...
Sun Yatsen, Robert Wilcox and Their Failed Revolutions, Honolulu and Canton 1895: Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer
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By Patrick Anderson
January 09, 2023
Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer is the radical, explosive retelling of the first decade of the 'Father of Modern China' Dr Sun Yatsen’s globally shaped formation as a professional revolutionist, and of the impact of the adult Sun’s revolutionary relationship with Hawaiʻi and with his varied ...
The Cold War, the Space Race, and the Law of Outer Space: Space for Peace
1st Edition
By Albert K. Lai
January 09, 2023
The Cold War, the Space Race, and the Law of Outer Space: Space for Peace tells the story of one of the United Nations’ most enduring and least known achievements: the adoption of five multilateral treaties that compose the international law of outer space. The story begins in 1957 during the ...
Political Power and Colonial Development in British Central Africa 1938-1960s
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By Alan Cousins
December 30, 2022
This book focuses on the late colonial history of Zambia and Malawi, which between 1953 and 1963 were part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Although there were many links in their history and between their populations, the two territories (British protectorates under Colonial Office ...
The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century: An Introduction
1st Edition
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By Graciela Iglesias-Rogers
December 19, 2022
The Hispanic and Anglo worlds are often portrayed as the Cain and Abel of Western culture, antagonistic and alien to each other. This book challenges such view with a new critical conceptual framework – the ‘Hispanic-Anglosphere’ – to open a window into the often surprising interactions of ...