Routledge Studies in Modern History
Women and Politics in Wartime China: Networking Across Geopolitical Borders
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
Reconciliation after Civil Wars: Global Perspectives
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By Paul Quigley, James Hawdon
June 30, 2020
How do former enemies reconcile after civil wars? Do they ever really reconcile in any complete sense? How is political reunification related to longer-term cultural reintegration? Bringing together experts on civil wars around the modern world – the United States, Spain, Rwanda, Colombia, Russia, ...
Socialist Imaginations: Utopias, Myths, and the Masses
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By Stefan Arvidsson, Jakub Beneš, Anja Kirsch
June 30, 2020
This volume offers new perspectives on the appeal and profound cultural meaning of socialism over the past two centuries. It brings together scholarship from various disciplines addressing diverse national contexts, including Britain, China, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the USA. Taken ...
The Communist International, Anti-Imperialism and Racial Equality in British Dominions
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By Oleksa Drachewych
June 30, 2020
This book analyzes the stance of international communism towards nationality, anti-colonialism, and racial equality as defined by the Communist International (Comintern) during the interwar period. Central to the volume is a comparative analysis of the communist parties of three British dominions, ...
The Institution of International Order: From the League of Nations to the United Nations
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By Simon Jackson, Alanna O'Malley
June 30, 2020
This volume delivers a history of internationalism at the League of Nations and the United Nations (UN), with a focus on the period from the 1920s to the 1970s, when the nation-state ascended to global hegemony as a political formation. Combining global, regional and local scaes of analysis, the ...