Routledge Studies in Modern History
The United Nations and Decolonization
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicole Eggers, Jessica Lynne Pearson, Aurora Almada e Santos
April 29, 2022
Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories. The authors in this book explore this dynamic in order...
Immigration Policy from 1970 to the Present
1st Edition
By Rachel Stevens
December 13, 2021
This book examines national debates on immigration, asylum seekers and guest worker programs from 1970 to the present. Over the past 45 years, contemporary immigration has had a profound impact throughout North America, Europe and Australasia, yet the admission of ethnically diverse immigrants was ...
Alcohol Flows Across Cultures: Drinking Cultures in Transnational and Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Waltraud Ernst
September 30, 2021
This book maps changing patterns of drinking. Emphasis is laid on the connected histories of different regions and populations across the globe regarding consumption patterns, government policies, economics and representations of alcohol and drinking.Its transnational perspective facilitates an ...
Intellectuals in the Latin Space during the Era of Fascism: Crossing Borders
1st Edition
Edited
By Valeria Galimi, Annarita Gori
September 30, 2021
This volume investigates a galaxy of diverse networks and intellectual actors who engaged in a broad political environment, from conservatism to the most radical right, between the World Wars. Looking beyond fascism, it considers the less-investigated domain of the 'Latin space', which is both...
Red Money for the Global South: East–South Economic Relations in the Cold War
1st Edition
By Max Trecker
September 30, 2021
Red Money for the Global South explores the relationship of the East with the “new” South after decolonization, with a particular focus on the economic motives of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) and other parties that were all striving for mutual cooperation.During the Cold War, ...
The Co-opting of Education by Extremist Factions: Professing Hate
1st Edition
By Sarah Gendron
September 30, 2021
The Co-opting of Education by Extremist Factions: Professing Hate is a study of the ways in which various extremist groups have appropriated education for social manipulation in order to gain political power, and, in some cases, to incite violence. It is a detailed exploration of case studies ...
Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By James Gregory, Daniel Grey
August 02, 2021
This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with union, concord and bonds of sympathy, but also through moments of secession, separation, discord and disjunction. Its lens extends from the local and regional, through to ...
1917 and the Consequences
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stokłosa
June 30, 2021
The Russian Revolution of 1917 has been one of the most important events of modern history. It changed the course of the events not only in Russia but, on a wider scale, across the world while it influenced the flow of history throughout the twentieth century until the fall of the Soviet Union and,...
Castro and Franco: The Backstage of Cold War Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Haruko Hosoda
June 30, 2021
Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Spain’s Francisco Franco were two men with very similar backgrounds but very different political ideologies. Both received a Catholic education and had strong connections to the Galicia region of Spain. Both were familiar with guerrilla tactics and came to power through ...
Constructing Nationalism in Iran: From the Qajars to the Islamic Republic
1st Edition
Edited
By Meir Litvak
June 30, 2021
Nationalism has played an important role in the cultural and intellectual discourse of modernity that emerged in Iran from the late nineteenth century to the present, promoting new formulations of collective identity and advocating a new and more active role for the broad strata of the public in ...
India at 70: Multidisciplinary Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Maxey, Paul McGarr
June 30, 2021
India at 70: Multidisciplinary Approaches examines Indian independence in August 1947 and its multiple afterlives. With nine contributions by a range of international scholars, it interrogates 1947 and its complex, bloody aftermath in historical, political and aesthetic terms. This original ...
Ireland in the World: Comparative, Transnational, and Personal Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Angela McCarthy
June 30, 2021
This international edited book collection of ten original contributions from established and emerging scholars explores aspects of Ireland’s place in the world since the 1780s. It imaginatively blends comparative, transnational, and personal perspectives to examine migration in a range of diverse ...