Routledge Studies in Modern History
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)
1st Edition
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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....
Sixty Years of Service in Africa: The U.S. Peace Corps in Cameroon
1st Edition
By Julius A. Amin
May 27, 2025
Based on previously unused primary sources obtained from both sides of the Atlantic, this study provides a more fundamental, consistent, and balanced source-based assessment of the role of the U.S. Peace Corps across its entire existence in Africa. The study sheds light on a new and intriguing ...
The Creation of Kazakh National Identity: The Relationship with Russia, 1900–2015
1st Edition
By Dmitry V. Shlapentokh
May 27, 2025
This monograph utilizes three theoretical models to explain Kazakhstan’s emergence as an independent state and its changing relationships with the broader world, particularly Russia, since the beginning of the twentieth century. The book first explores the construction of Kazakh national identity ...
Science, Religion and Nationalism: Local Perceptions and Global Historiographies
1st Edition
Edited
By Jaume Navarro, Kostas Tampakis
May 26, 2025
“Science” and “Religion” have been two major elements in the building of modern nation-states. While contemporary historiography of science has studied the interactions between nation building and the construction of modern scientific and technological institutions, “science-and-religion” is still ...
Class War or Race War: The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society during and after the Second World War
1st Edition
By Tamás Kende
May 06, 2025
Class War or Race War is more than an anti-thesis of the master narrative regarding the Soviet state antisemitism. Kende not only refutes the originally anti-Communist myth of the systemic nature of (state) socialism, but tries to re-, and deconstruct, the origins of this myth. With intensive use ...
Gender, Women and the Indian Emergency, 1975-1977
1st Edition
By Gemma Scott
May 06, 2025
India’s State of Emergency (1975-1977) is one of the most controversial moments in the country’s history since independence. During this infamous 21-month period, Indira Gandhi’s government suspended constitutional rights, postponed elections, censored the press and arrested opposition, as well as ...
Memory and the Holocaust: Descendants of Survivors and Family History
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, David Clark
May 06, 2025
The importance of recording testimony of Holocaust survivors is well understood. While empowering the survivor and adding another layer of documentation about the cataclysm, it also serves as a bulwark against Holocaust denial. The same holds true for helping survivors pen their memoirs, or when ...
Carlo di Rudio and the Age of Revolution
1st Edition
By Nick Ridley
May 05, 2025
From a Europe convulsed by revolutions to an assassination plot and international secret diplomacy, to conflict between major European powers which changed the strategic power balance, to the American Civil War, and finally, to Custer’s Last Stand, this tumultuous vista is told through the life and...
Longing for the Future: Mal D’Afrique and Afro-Optimism in Perspectives on Somalia
1st Edition
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By Rosetta G. Caponetto, Giusy Di Filippo, Martina Di Florio
May 05, 2025
This volume focuses on a longing projected mostly toward the past (mal d’Afrique) alongside a longing toward the future (afro-optimism), and the different manifestations, shifting meanings, and potential points of contact of these two stances. The volume introduces a new perspective into the ...