Routledge Studies in Modern History
Railways in the First World War, Volume 1
1st Edition
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By Andrea Giuntini, Henry Jacolin
October 26, 2025
This book, the first in a two-volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organised by the International Railway History Association (IRHA), examines the relationship between the railways and the First World War from a global theoretical, methodological and geographical perspective. Although World...
Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering, Surveying, and Ordering
1st Edition
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By Jörn Happel, Melanie Hussinger, Hajo Raupach
September 28, 2025
This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical, colonial and violent appropriation during the 19th century. The 19th century was the century of world travel. The earth was explored, surveyed, described, illustrated, and categorized. Travelogues became world ...
Borders and Boundaries: Historical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Tomás Finn, Kieran Hoare
September 18, 2025
This book examines the making and remaking of borders and boundaries primarily relating to Ireland. Borders and Boundaries features selected papers from the 33rd Irish Conference of Historians held by the University of Galway in May 2021 on the theme of ‘Borders and Boundaries’. It covers the ...
Unfiltered Regard for China: French Perspectives from Mao to Xi
1st Edition
By Peidong Sun
September 10, 2025
Unfiltered Regard for China is a collection of six unique narratives of French academics who, through decades of fieldwork, research, and engagement—some beginning as early as 1964 and continuing to the present—have explored China’s history, politics, and society. These distinct voices illuminate ...
Decolonizing Our Names in the 21st Century: Place, Identity, and Agency
1st Edition
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By Lauren Beck, Grace A. Gomashie
September 09, 2025
This book combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting precolonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names. In a postcolonial context, naming...
The New International Economic Order: Lives and Afterlives
1st Edition
By Paul Stubbs
September 05, 2025
The New International Economic Order (NIEO) was an attempt, underpinned by the agency of the Global South, to articulate global economic and social rights consequent upon political rights gained through processes of decolonisation. The New International Economic Order: Lives and Afterlives situates...
Camilo Torres: Priest, Liberation Theologian, Guerrilla Fighter
1st Edition
By Eitan Ginzberg
August 29, 2025
Camilo Torres: Priest, Liberation Theologian, Guerrilla Fighter takes an in-depth look at the intense story of Colombian figure Camilo Torres Restrepo (1929–1966). Torres was an acclaimed young liberal who became a priest, a sociologist, a forerunner of liberation theology, and a revolutionary ...
The Making of a World Order: Global Historical Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
1st Edition
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By Albert Wu, Stephen W. Sawyer
August 29, 2025
Why does 1919 deserve further study and debate a hundred years later? What lessons for global history may we learn from the world order created at the end of the Great War? Drawing insight from the global turn of the past several decades that has forced us to reconsider the most important world ...
History and Psychoanalysis in the Columbus Centre: The Meaning of Evil
1st Edition
By Danae Karydaki
July 31, 2025
This book draws on a range of key archives and oral testimonies to provide the first systematic and historical study of the origins, context, development, frustrations, inner contradictions, and legacies of the Columbus Centre. The Columbus Centre, a remarkable though largely forgotten research ...
The Meaning of Israel: Anti-Zionism and Philo-Zionism in the Postwar Left
1st Edition
By Åsmund Borgen Gjerde
July 31, 2025
Why did social democrats in the 1940s and 1950s idealise Zionism and Israel? And why did ‘the New Left’ of the 1960s denounce Israel as an apartheid state and a ‘bridgehead of imperialism’? The Meaning of Israel: Anti-Zionism and Philo-Zionism in the Postwar Left, a case study of Norway, offers new...
Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America: Solidarity, Mutual Aid, and Cooperation in Comparative Perspective (19th–21st Centuries)
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By Montserrat Duch-Plana, Josep M. Pons-Altés
July 30, 2025
This book deals with the evolution of initiatives connected to the social and solidarity economy and their political cultures and educational implications in the south of Europe and in Latin America. Employing a comparative perspective, the contributors present 11 studies of these trajectories in ...
Chinese Revolution in Practice: From Movement to the State
1st Edition
By Guo Wu
May 27, 2025
This book employs multiple case studies to explore how the Chinese communist revolution began as an ideology-oriented intellectual movement aimed at improving society before China’s transformation into a state that suppresses dissenting voices by outsourcing its power of coercion and incarceration....