Routledge Studies in Modern History
War, Peace and International Order?: The Legacies of the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907
1st Edition
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By Maartje Abbenhuis, Christopher Ernest Barber, Annalise R. Higgins
August 14, 2018
The exact legacies of the two Hague Peace Conferences remain unclear. On the one hand, diplomatic and military historians, who cast their gaze to 1914, traditionally dismiss the events of 1899 and 1907 as insignificant footnotes on the path to the First World War. On the other, experts in ...
Histories of Productivity: Genealogical Perspectives on the Body and Modern Economy
1st Edition
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By Peter-Paul Bänziger, Mischa Suter
June 28, 2018
Global issues such as climate change and the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis have spurred interest in thinking about the history of the modern economy that goes beyond disciplinary economic history. This book contributes to the cultural history of capitalism and its different regimes of ...
America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956
1st Edition
By David Mayers
March 15, 2018
The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts. These have emphasized the United States and USSR in a context of geopolitical rivalry, with concomitant attention upon the bristling security state. Historians have also ...
Foundations of Modernity: Human Agency and the Imperial State
1st Edition
By Isa Blumi
June 16, 2017
Investigating how a number of modern empires transform over the long 19th century (1789-1914) as a consequence of their struggle for ascendancy in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, Foundations of Modernity: Human Agency and the Imperial State moves the study of the modern empire towards a ...
Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945: "Aliens in Uniform" in Wartime Societies
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By Eric Storm, Ali Al Tuma
June 07, 2017
During the first half of the twentieth century, European countries witnessed the arrival of hundreds of thousands of colonial soldiers fighting in European territory (First and Second World War and Spanish Civil War) and coming into contact with European society and culture. For many Europeans, ...
Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Chinese Revolution in Latin America
1st Edition
By Matthew Rothwell
May 31, 2017
This book shows how Maoism was globalized during the 1949-1976 period, highlighting the agency of both Latin American and Chinese actors. While Maoism has long been known to have been influential in many social movements and guerrilla groups in Latin America, author Matthew Rothwell is the first to...
First World War Nursing: New Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Alison S. Fell, Christine Hallett
September 08, 2015
This book brings together a collection of works by scholars who have produced some of the most innovative and influential work on the topic of First World War nursing in the last ten years. The contributors employ an interdisciplinary collaborative approach that takes into account multiple facets ...
Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa: The Case of Mozambique, 1975-1994
1st Edition
By Alice Dinerman
March 31, 2015
This groundbreaking study investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War, post-apartheid Southern Africa. Alice Dinerman offers a detailed chronicle of the Mozambican government’s attempts to revise the country's troubled ...
Churchill, Roosevelt and India: Propaganda During World War II
1st Edition
By Auriol Weigold
February 27, 2012
As the United States was drawn into the Second World War, pressure grew from a number of nations for India’s independence. Prime Minister Churchill, in Britain's name, engaged deliberately in propaganda in the United States to persuade the American public and, through it, President Roosevelt that ...
Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America since 1800
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By Bernard Harris, Paul Bridgen
February 23, 2012
International in perspective, the essays in this volume are primarily concerned with two facets of the mixed economy of welfare--charity and mutual aid. Emphasizing the close relationship between these two elements and the often blurred boundaries between each of them and commercial provision,...
Genocide and Fascism: The Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe
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By Aristotle Kallis
January 06, 2011
This book investigates how fascism – as an ideology and political praxis – reconfigured the ideological, political, and moral landscape of interwar Europe, generating an atmosphere of extreme ‘license’ that facilitated the leap into eliminationist violence. It demonstrates how fascist ideology ...
Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion
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By Alison Bashford, Carolyn Strange
July 03, 2003
This book examines the coercive and legally sanctioned strategies of exclusion and segregation undertaken over the last two centuries in a wide range of contexts. The political and cultural history of this period raises a number of questions about coercive exclusion. The essays in this collection ...