Routledge Studies in Modern History
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
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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
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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
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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
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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. ...
Russia in Asia: Imaginations, Interactions, and Realities
1st Edition
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By Jane F. Hacking, Jeffrey S. Hardy, Matthew P. Romaniello
May 06, 2022
This edited volume presents new research on Russian-Asian connections by historians, art historians, literary scholars, and linguists. Of particular interest are imagined communities, social networks, and the legacy of colonialism in this important arena of global exchanges within the imperial, ...
Embassies in Crisis: Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations
1st Edition
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By Rogelia Pastor-Castro, Martin Thomas
April 29, 2022
Embassies are integral to international diplomacy, their staff instrumental to inter-governmental dialogue, strategic partnerships, trading relationships and cultural exchange. But Embassies are also discreet political spaces. Notionally sovereign territory ‘immune’ from local jurisdiction, in ...
Ruler Personality Cults from Empires to Nation-States and Beyond: Symbolic Patterns and Interactional Dynamics
1st Edition
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By Kirill Postoutenko, Darin Stephanov
April 29, 2022
Encompassing five continents and twenty centuries, this book puts ruler personality cults on the crossroads of disciplines rarely, if ever, juxtaposed before: among its authors are historians, linguists, media scholars, political scientists and communication sociologists from Europe, the United ...
The Grand Strategies of Great Powers
1st Edition
By Tudor A. Onea
April 29, 2022
What is grand strategy and what is it good for? What are great powers, and which states are great powers today? What are the grand strategies available to great powers? What are the conditions under which a certain strategy is suitable and when should it be rejected? What are the factors affecting ...