Routledge Studies in Modern History
Castro and Franco: The Backstage of Cold War Diplomacy
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
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 ...