Routledge Studies in Modern History
The Boycott or the Bullet: A Global History of Debates over Nonviolence since 1850
1st Edition
By Doug McGetchin
March 25, 2026
The Boycott or the Bullet: A Global History of Debates over Nonviolence since 1850 examines debates within nonviolent movements, including labor movements in Europe, Gandhi’s Indian independence struggle, and Martin Luther King’s US civil rights campaigns. Behind the scenes, nonviolent activists ...
Writing Antifascist Resistance, 1939–44: History Through Last Letters
1st Edition
By Mercedes Camino
March 20, 2026
The book, Writing Antifascist Resistance, 1939-44: History Through Last Letters, examines the final letters of five antifascist activists who faced execution during the Second World War, including three teenagers. From Julia Conesa and Guy Môquet, who were given mere hours to write before their ...
Creating Holocaust Memory: Reworking Trauma for Future Generations
1st Edition
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By Martin Herskovitz, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
February 24, 2026
Creating "Holocaust memory" has been an evolving, ongoing process. This volume surveys developments in a number of major disciplines and social sectors, followed by case studies that each express the ongoing dynamics of Holocaust memory and commemoration in a particular field. Encompassing numerous...
Outdoor Adventures in the Soviet Union and the Post-Soviet Space: The Metamorphoses of Proletarian Tourism
1st Edition
By Alexander Statiev
February 18, 2026
Exploring the evolution of adventure tourism in Russia from imperial times to the present, this book highlights the distinctive features of Soviet non-commercial trekking, boating, climbing and skiing expeditions organised by urbanites during their annual vacations. This study, based on archival ...
British West Indian Newspapers and the Abolition of Slavery
1st Edition
By Andrew Lewis
January 29, 2026
This book is the first overall survey of the British West Indian press in the early nineteenth century—a critical period in the history of the region. Based on extensive and ground-breaking archival research, this volume provides an in-depth history of early nineteenth-century British West Indian ...
Polish-Turkish Relations from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Karolina Wanda Olszowska, Paulina Dominik, Agnieszka Ayşen Kaim, Hacer Topaktaş Üstüner, Zofia Gródek-Szostak, Karol Wasilewski
December 31, 2025
This interdisciplinary volume examines the longstanding and complex relations between Poland and Turkey from the 18th century to the present, exploring their cultural, diplomatic, political and economic dimensions. Drawing on extensive archival research across Europe and the Middle East, it ...
Wilsonianism in Southern Europe and Latin America: The Political Impact of Woodrow Wilson After the First World War
1st Edition
Edited
By Maximiliano Fuentes Codera, Giaime Pala
December 31, 2025
Approaches to the impact of Wilsonianism have traditionally been developed from the fields of international relations, international law and the study of global self-determination movements. This book offers a complementary and original perspective by examining the political influence of Wilsonian ...
Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times
1st Edition
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By Ricard Torra-Prat, Joan Pubill-Brugués, Arndt Brendecke
December 26, 2025
Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times challenges current historiographical approaches, proposing new interpretations to rethink the relation between corruption and the socio-political and economic transformations since early globalisation. By ...
How the World Hunger Problem Was not Solved
1st Edition
By Christian Gerlach
December 26, 2025
The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern’ inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation. This would turn subsistence producers into business owners, transform rural areas,...
Propaganda and Power in the Age of Globalization: The Myths We Live By
1st Edition
By Simon Sherratt
December 26, 2025
Following victory in World War II, the US and Western Europe claimed to be the champions of the political ideals of democracy and freedom, along with the economic ideal of free market capitalism. Two decades into the twenty-first century, these once noble ideals have been reduced to little more ...
Communities of Resistance and Resilience in the Post-Industrial City: A Transnational Perspective from Lyon and Pittsburgh, 1980–2010
1st Edition
By Daniel Holland
December 25, 2025
This book is about the grassroots community revitalization movement in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Lyon, France, between 1980 and 2010, an extension of the post-WWII civil rights campaign that is rarely considered. It tells the story of residents' attempts to improve their communities through ...
Networking and Career Strategies in Late Habsburg Monarchy and its Successor States: Paths to Power
1st Edition
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By Alice Velková
December 17, 2025
This comparative study of elite formation and social mobility in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries focuses on Bohemia and Transylvania as representatives of different administrative systems – Cisleithanian and Transleithanian – within the Habsburg Monarchy. Through&...