Routledge Studies in Modern History
Civic Nationalisms in Global Perspective
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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?
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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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 ...
Women and Politics in Wartime China: Networking Across Geopolitical Borders
1st Edition
By Vivienne Guo
September 30, 2020
Focusing on Chinese elite women as a special socio-political group, this book places the sophisticated networks they formed in the shifting geographical, social, cultural and political spaces of wartime China, where their political engagement, knowledge-making, and network-building in support of '...
International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Exorbitant Expectations
1st Edition
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By Jonas Brendebach, Martin Herzer, Heidi Tworek
August 14, 2020
International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is the first volume to explore the historical relationship between international organizations and the media. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and coming up to the 1990s, the volume shows how people around ...
Transnational Encounters between Germany and East Asia since 1900
1st Edition
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By Joanne Miyang Cho
August 14, 2020
This volume contributes to an emerging field of Asian German Studies by bringing together cutting-edge scholarship from international scholars working in a variety of disciplines. The chapters survey transnational encounters between Germany and East Asia since 1900. By rejecting traditional ...
War Veterans and the World after 1945: Cold War Politics, Decolonization, Memory
1st Edition
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By Ángel Alcalde, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
August 14, 2020
This book examines war veterans’ history after 1945 from a global perspective. In the Cold War era, in most countries of the world there was a sizeable portion of population with direct war experience. This edited volume gathers contributions which show the veterans’ involvement in all the major ...
Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an Age of Globalisation: The Euro-American World and Beyond, 1780-1914
1st Edition
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By Joe Regan, Cathal Smith
June 30, 2020
This book investigates the causes and effects of modernisation in rural regions of Britain and Ireland, continental Europe, the Americas, and Australasia between 1780 and 1914. In this period, the transformation of the world economy associated with the Industrial Revolution fuelled dramatic changes...
Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Europe and Latin America: Crossing Borders
1st Edition
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By António Costa Pinto, Federico Finchelstein
June 30, 2020
What drove the horizontal spread of authoritarianism and corporatism between Europe and Latin America in the 20th century? What processes of transnational diffusion were in motion and from where to where? In what type of ‘critical junctures’ were they adopted and why did corporatism largely ...
Informal Alliance: The Bilderberg Group and Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War, 1952-1968
1st Edition
By Thomas Gijswijt
June 30, 2020
Informal Alliance is the first archive-based history of the secretive Bilderberg Group, the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the height of the Cold War. Making extensive use of the recently opened Bilderberg Group archives as well as a wide range of private and official collections...
Museums in the Second World War: Curators, Culture and Change
1st Edition
By Catherine Pearson, Suzanne Keene
June 30, 2020
Exploring the role of museums, galleries and curators during the upheaval of the Second World War, this book challenges the accepted view of a hiatus in museum services during the conflict and its immediate aftermath. Instead it argues that new thinking in the 1930s was realised in a number of ...