Routledge Studies in Modern History
Reconciliation after Civil Wars: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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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 ...
The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology
1st Edition
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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
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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 ...