Routledge Studies in Modern History
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 ...
Transnational Perspectives on Modern Irish History
1st Edition
By Niall Whelehan
August 23, 2018
This book explores the benefits and challenges of transnational history for the study of modern Ireland. In recent years the word "transnational" has become more and more conspicuous in history writing across the globe, with scholars seeking to move beyond national and local frameworks when ...
Black Cosmopolitanism and Anticolonialism: Pivotal Moments
1st Edition
By Babacar M'Baye
August 14, 2018
This book examines the cosmopolitanism and anticolonialism that black intellectuals, such as the African American W.E.B. Du Bois, the Caribbeans Marcus Garvey and George Padmore, and the Francophone West Africans (Kojo Touvalou-Houénou, Lamine Senghor, and Léopold Sédar Senghor) developed during ...
War, Peace and International Order?: The Legacies of the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907
1st Edition
Edited
By Maartje Abbenhuis, Christopher Ernest Barber, Annalise R. Higgins
August 14, 2018
The exact legacies of the two Hague Peace Conferences remain unclear. On the one hand, diplomatic and military historians, who cast their gaze to 1914, traditionally dismiss the events of 1899 and 1907 as insignificant footnotes on the path to the First World War. On the other, experts in ...
Histories of Productivity: Genealogical Perspectives on the Body and Modern Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter-Paul Banziger, Mischa Suter
June 28, 2018
Global issues such as climate change and the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis have spurred interest in thinking about the history of the modern economy that goes beyond disciplinary economic history. This book contributes to the cultural history of capitalism and its different regimes of ...
Public Goods versus Economic Interests: Global Perspectives on the History of Squatting
1st Edition
Edited
By Freia Anders, Alexander Sedlmaier
June 28, 2018
Squatting is currently a global phenomenon. A concomitant of economic development and social conflict, squatting attracts public attention because – implicitly or explicitly – it questions property relations from the perspective of the basic human need for shelter. So far neglected by historical ...
America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956
1st Edition
By David Mayers
March 15, 2018
The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts. These have emphasized the United States and USSR in a context of geopolitical rivalry, with concomitant attention upon the bristling security state. Historians have also ...
Foundations of Modernity: Human Agency and the Imperial State
1st Edition
By Isa Blumi
June 16, 2017
Investigating how a number of modern empires transform over the long 19th century (1789-1914) as a consequence of their struggle for ascendancy in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, Foundations of Modernity: Human Agency and the Imperial State moves the study of the modern empire towards a ...
Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945: "Aliens in Uniform" in Wartime Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Eric Storm, Ali Al Tuma
June 07, 2017
During the first half of the twentieth century, European countries witnessed the arrival of hundreds of thousands of colonial soldiers fighting in European territory (First and Second World War and Spanish Civil War) and coming into contact with European society and culture. For many Europeans, ...