Routledge Studies in Modern History
American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective: Lords of Land and Labor
1st Edition
By Cathal Smith
September 26, 2022
This is the first study to systematically explore similarities, differences, and connections between the histories of American planters and Irish landlords. The book focuses primarily on the comparative and transnational investigation of an antebellum Mississippi planter named John A. Quitman (1799...
Combatants and Civilians in Revolutionary Ireland, 1918-1923
1st Edition
By Thomas Earls FitzGerald
September 26, 2022
This book is based on original research into intimidation and violence directed at civilians by combatants during the revolutionary period in Ireland, considering this from the perspectives of the British, the Free State and the IRA. The book combines qualitative and quantitative approaches, and ...
Political and Military Leadership in the World Wars: The Closest Concert
1st Edition
By Carl Cavanagh Hodge
September 26, 2022
This book approaches the World Wars and the decades between them as a single unit in modern history. It is impossible to understand either the cause or conduct of the 1939–45 war without an appreciation of the issues not wholly answered in the conflict of 1914–18. Bridging the World Wars was the ...
The Ending of Tribal Wars: Configurations and Processes of Pacification
1st Edition
Edited
By Jürg Helbling, Tobias Schwoerer
September 26, 2022
All over the world and throughout millennia, states have attempted to subjugate, control and dominate non-state populations and to end their wars. This book compares such processes of pacification leading to the end of tribal warfare in seven societies from all over the world between the 19th and ...
Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia: From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation
1st Edition
By Asnake Kefale, Tomasz Kamusella, Christophe Van der Beken
August 29, 2022
This book is a contribution to the global history of the transfer of political ideas, as exemplified by the case of modern Ethiopia. Like many non-European nation-states, Ethiopia adopted a western model of statehood, that is, the nation-state. Unlike the postcolonial polities that have retained ...
The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy
1st Edition
By Chris Kempshall
August 11, 2022
This book provides the first detailed and comprehensive examination of all the materials making up the Star Wars franchise relating to the portrayal and representation of real-world history and politics. Drawing on a variety of sources, including films, published interviews with directors and ...
Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930: In Defence of Freedom
1st Edition
Edited
By Matteo Millan, Alessandro Saluppo
August 01, 2022
This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilisation, from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the violent spasms of the 1920s and 1930s. It ...
German-East Asian Encounters and Entanglements: Affinity in Culture and Politics Since 1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanne Miyang Cho
August 01, 2022
This volume surveys transnational encounters and entanglements between Germany and East Asia since 1945, a period that has witnessed unprecedented global connections between the two regions. It examines their sociopolitical and cultural connections through a variety of media. Since 1945, cultural ...
War and Semiotics: Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank Jacob
August 01, 2022
Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language. The semiotic and semantic codes are redefined, according to the need to create an enemy image, or in reference to the results of a war that are post-event defined as just or reasonable. The semiotic systems of wars are ...
Citizens and Refugees: Stories from Afghanistan and Syria to Germany
1st Edition
By Joachim C. Häberlen
July 29, 2022
Following the stories of two dozen refugees from Syria and Afghanistan in 2015, Citizens and Refugees argues that we need to include the histories of these countries, notably the Syrian Revolution, into narratives of the refugee crisis. The book thus challenges a framing of the crisis that usually...
Redefining Propaganda in Modern China: The Mao Era and its Legacies
1st Edition
Edited
By James Farley, Matthew D. Johnson
May 30, 2022
Usage of the political keyword 'propaganda' by the Chinese Communist Party has changed and expanded over time. These changes have been masked by strong continuities spanning periods in the history of the People's Republic of China from the Mao Zedong era (1949–76) to the new era of Xi Jinping (2012...
In the Shadow of the Swastika: The Relationships Between Indian Radical Nationalism, Italian Fascism and Nazism
1st Edition
By Marzia Casolari
May 06, 2022
This book examines and establishes connections between Italian Fascism and Hindu nationalism, connections which developed within the frame of Italy’s anti-British foreign policy. The most remarkable contacts with the Indian political milieu were established via Bengali nationalist circles. ...