Routledge Studies in Modern History
Displaced Persons, Resettlement and the Legacies of War: From War Zones to New Homes
1st Edition
By Jessica Stroja
October 07, 2024
This book provides a case study on the ongoing impact of displacement and encampment of refugees who do not have access to resettlement support services or are resettled in locations of low cultural and linguistic diversity. Following the journeys of displaced families and children who left ...
Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950
1st Edition
By Ines Prodöhl
October 04, 2024
Globalizing the Soybean asks how the soybean conquered the West and analyzes why and how the crop gained entry into agriculture and industry in regions beyond Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Historian Ines Prodöhl describes the soybean’s journey centered on three hubs: Northeast ...
The Essential Speeches of the Cold War: A Primary Source Collection
1st Edition
By Sean Brennan
September 24, 2024
This book is a primary source collection of 30 speeches of the Cold War from 1917 to 1991, representing a cross section of leaders on all sides of the conflict from North America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. As ideological conflict between superpowers returns to the world, it is more ...
Appearance and Identity Crisis in Modern Indian History: The Third Design (1857 A.D. – 2014 A.D.)
1st Edition
By Jeevan Jyoti Chakarawarti
September 11, 2024
Chakarawarti explores the history of Indian eunuchs from the Mughal empire’s fall following the mutiny of 1857 A.D. to the Supreme Court of India’s historic ruling in 2014 A.D. This book examines the social, political, economic, and religious aspects of Indian eunuchs’ lives, providing a true ...
Defrosting the Cold War and Beyond: An Introduction to the Helsinki Process, 1954–2022
1st Edition
By Richard Davy
August 26, 2024
This volume tells the story of the Helsinki Process from the immediate post-war period through the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975 to the collapse of the Soviet empire and up to the present day. Treating it as a single narrative in the search for a just and stable order in Europe adds ...
Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution: Emotions, Power and Legitimacy in the Atlantic Space
1st Edition
By Moisés Prieto
August 26, 2024
Between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the idea of dictatorship changed drastically, leaving back the ancient Roman paradigm and opening the way to a rule with extraordinary powers and which was unlimited in time. While the French Revolution produced an acceleration of history ...
Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanessa Agnew, Juliane Tomann, Sabine Stach
August 26, 2024
Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History examines reenactment's challenge to traditional modes of understanding the past, asking how experience-based historical knowledge-making relates to memory-making and politics. Reenactment is a global phenomenon that ncompasses ...
Propaganda and Power in the Age of Globalization: The Myths We Live By
1st Edition
By Simon Sherratt
August 15, 2024
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 ...
Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Ricard Torra-Prat, Joan Pubill-Brugués, Arndt Brendecke
August 14, 2024
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 ...
Communities of Resistance and Resilience in the Post-Industrial City: A Transnational Perspective from Lyon and Pittsburgh, 1980–2010
1st Edition
By Daniel Holland
August 01, 2024
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 ...
The Making of Australia's Gold Coast: A Historical Perspective
1st Edition
By Alan J. Blackman
August 01, 2024
Blackman draws on original material and the work of many earlier researchers to paint a verbal picture of the evolution of a remarkable city. In an easy-to-read style, he highlights some of the conditions, key events, and individuals that have led to the development of Australia’s Gold Coast. The ...
Time and Space in the Internet Age
1st Edition
By Stephen Kern
August 01, 2024
This book analyzes how new technologies transformed life and thought between two periods, 1880-1920 and 1980-2020, with a focus on temporal experiences of past, present, future and the spatial experiences of form, distance, and direction. The signature contrast is between experiences of time and ...