Routledge Studies in Modern History
Making Sense of Mining History: Themes and Agendas
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By Stefan Berger, Peter Alexander
June 30, 2021
This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe including mining archaeology, technologies of mining, migration and mining, the everyday life of the miner, the state and mining, industrial relations in mining, gender and ...
Marginalized Groups, Inequalities and the Post-War Welfare State: Whose Welfare?
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By Monika Baár, Paul van Trigt
June 30, 2021
Examining the ways in which societies treat their most vulnerable members has long been regarded as revealing of the bedrock beliefs and values that guide the social order. However, academic research about the post-war welfare state is often focused on mainstream arrangements or on one social group...
Reforming Senates: Upper Legislative Houses in North Atlantic Small Powers 1800-present
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By Nikolaj Bijleveld, Colin Grittner, David Smith, Wybren Verstegen
June 30, 2021
This new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and the reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories. Senate reforms emerged in the wake of deep political crises within the North Atlantic world and were ...
Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present: Revisiting the 50 Years of Discussions from East and Central Europe
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By Aleksandra Konarzewska, Anna Nakai, Michał Przeperski
June 30, 2021
Why does 1968 matter today? The authors of this volume believe that it is a crucial point of reference for current developments, especially the ‘illiberal turn’ both in Europe and America. If we want to understand it, we need to look back into 1968 – the year that founded the ...
Contesting the Origins of the First World War: An Historiographical Argument
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By Troy Paddock
March 31, 2021
Contesting the Origins of the First World War challenges the Anglophone emphasis on Germany as bearing the primary responsibility in causing the conflict and instead builds upon new perspectives to reconsider the roles of the other Great Powers.Using the work of Terrance Zuber, Sean McMeekin, ...
Model Workers in China, 1949-1965: Constructing A New Citizen
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By James Farley
March 31, 2021
Seismic changes in ideology and economic policy in China followed the death of Mao Zedong but one aspect of culture has remained constant: the use of ‘Model Workers’ for the purposes of propaganda and more recent public relations campaigns. In both a political and commercial context, the use of ...
The Catholic Church and Liberal Democracy
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By Bernt Oftestad
March 31, 2021
The Roman Catholic Church's critical stance towards liberalism and democracy following the French Revolution and through the 19th century was often entrenched, but the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s saw a shift in the Church's attitude towards democracy. In recent years, a conflict has ...
Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492: More than Commodities
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By Martina Kaller, Frank Jacob
March 31, 2021
Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what they consumed. While global markets were consequently formed and provided access to these new ...
Civic Nationalisms in Global Perspective
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By Jasper Trautsch
December 18, 2020
Recent events around the globe have cast doubt on the assumption that, as a result of increasing cross-border migrations and global interdependencies, nation-states are becoming more inclusive, ethnic forms of identification more and more a thing of the past, and processes of supranational ...
The Limits of Westernization: American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860 – 1960
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By Jon Davidann
December 18, 2020
The goal of this project is to locate the origins and development of modern thought in the United States and East Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While a strong literature on post-war modernization exists, there is a gap in the pre-war origins and development of modern ...
Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity: A Secular State?
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By Stephen Chavura, John Gascoigne, Ian Tregenza
September 30, 2020
How did the concept of the secular state emerge and evolve in Australia and how has it impacted on its institutions? This is the most comprehensive study to date on the relationship between religion and the state in Australian history, focusing on the meaning of political secularity in a society ...
The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism: Reversing the Gaze
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By Susannah Heschel, Umar Ryad
September 30, 2020
Edward Said’s Orientalism, now more than fifty years old, has to be one of the most frequently cited books among academics in a wide range of disciplines, and the most frequently assigned book to undergraduates at colleges.Among the common questions raised in response to Said’s book: Did scholars ...