Routledge Studies in Modern History
The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Saull, Alexander Anievas, Neil Davidson, Adam Fabry
June 30, 2020
This volume brings together a number of international scholars to offer an original analysis of far-right movements and politics, challenging the existing literature through a very different methodological and theoretical perspective. The approach offered here is that of ‘longue durée’ analysis, ...
The Origins of Anti-Authoritarianism
1st Edition
By Nina Witoszek
June 30, 2020
This book discusses the ongoing revolution of dignity in human history as the work of ‘humanist outliers’: small groups and individuals dedicated to compassionate social emancipation. It argues that anti-authoritarian revolutions like 1989’s ‘Autumn of the Nations’ succeeded in large part due to ...
Capitalism and Religion in World History: Purification and Progress
1st Edition
By Carl Mosk
May 07, 2019
Purity condemns filth; piety disparages corruption. Amassing riches offered to a transcendental world, the priests of ancient faiths found themselves trapped in contradiction. By loaning out their resources to merchants, they made themselves pariahs to true prophets. Before Islam squared the circle...
Censuses and Census Takers: A Global History
1st Edition
By Gunnar Thorvaldsen
May 07, 2019
This book analyses the international development of the census by comparing the history of census taking on all continents and in many countries. The timeframe is wide, from male censuses in the Bible to current censuses covering the whole population. There is a focus on the efforts and destinies ...
Michael Collins and the Financing of Violent Political Struggle
1st Edition
By Nicholas Ridley
May 07, 2019
Michael Collins was a pivotal figure in the Irish struggle for independence and his legacy has resonated ever since. Whilst Collins’ role as a guerrilla leader and intelligence operative is well documented, his actions as the clandestine Irish government Minister of Finance have been less studied. ...
The Assyrian Genocide: Cultural and Political Legacies
1st Edition
Edited
By Hannibal Travis
May 07, 2019
For a brief period, the attention of the international community has focused once again on the plight of religious minorities in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. In particular, the abductions and massacres of Yezidis and Assyrians in the Sinjar, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Baghdad, and Hasakah regions in 2007–...
The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War, 1979–1991
1st Edition
By Boraden Nhem
May 07, 2019
The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War, 1979–1991 narrates the military and strategic history of the Cambodian Civil War, especially the People’s Republic of Kampuchea (PRK), from when it deposed the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in ...
The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Frank Jacob
May 07, 2019
The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia. However, while appearing regional, the war itself in fact had a major global impact. The conflict and Japanese victory stimulated the Russian revolutionary movement in 1905 ...
The Style and Mythology of Socialism: Socialist Idealism, 1871-1914
1st Edition
By Stefan Arvidsson
May 07, 2019
Arguably no modern ideology has diffused as fast as Socialism. From the mid-nineteenth century to the last quarter of the twentieth socialist ideals played a crucial part not only in the political sphere, but also influenced the way people worked and played, thought and felt, designed and decorated...
Understanding the City through its Margins: Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By André Chappatte, Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi
May 07, 2019
Cities the world over and in particular developing countries suffer from uneven development and inequality. This is often coupled with the view that these inequalities constitute unfortunate anomalies. In contrast, this edited volume draws out the ways in which the city has not been able to exist ...
War and Diplomacy in East and West: A Biography of Józef Retinger
1st Edition
By M. B. B. Biskupski
April 11, 2019
The New York Times said of Józef Hieronim Retinger that he was on intimate terms with most leading statesmen of the Western World, including presidents of the United States. He has been repeatedly acknowledged as one of the principle architects of the movement for European unity after the World War...
Landscapes and Voices of the Great War
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela K. Smith, Krista Cowman
September 27, 2018
This volume aims to provide a wider view of First World War experience through focusing on landscapes less commonly considered in historiography, and on voices that have remained on the margins of popular understanding of the war. The landscape of the western front was captured during the conflict ...