Routledge Studies in Modern History
Decolonizing Our Names in the 21st Century: Place, Identity, and Agency
1st Edition
Edited
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)
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
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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 ...