Routledge Studies in Modern History
(Post)Colonial Ports: Place and (Non)Place in the Ecotone
1st Edition
Edited
By Jill Didur, Nalini Mohabir
May 04, 2025
This book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical, material, environmental, socio-political, and economic contexts in formerly colonized regions, spanning the Caribbean, Africa, North America, Europe, and the Pacific. The essays assess ...
Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights: Historical Experiences from the 1870s to the 1970s
1st Edition
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By Beate Althammer
April 14, 2025
The tensions between European conceptions of the welfare state and transnational migration have caused heated political, public, and academic debates over the last decades. Historiography, however, has not yet explored in depth how European societies struggled with this dilemma-filled relationship ...
Cities, Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States, 1905–2022 (Volume 1)
1st Edition
By Josef W. Konvitz
April 13, 2025
This comparative, transatlantic two-volume work covers nearly 120 years of the history of the rights, integration, and security of the Jewish people in both the United States and France, the countries with the largest and third-largest Jewish populations. Religious freedom and secularism have ...
Cities, Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States, 1905–2022 (Volume 2)
1st Edition
By Josef W. Konvitz
April 13, 2025
This comparative, transatlantic two-volume work covers nearly 120 years of the history of the rights, integration, and security of the Jewish people in both the United States and France, the countries with the largest and third-largest Jewish populations. Religious freedom and secularism have ...
India in the World: 1500 to the Present
1st Edition
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By Rajeshwari Dutt, Nico Slate
April 13, 2025
If we look back at world history in the past five hundred years, it is evident that Indian ideas, peoples, and goods helped drive world connections. From the quest to reach the Indies that drove Iberian rulers to fund costly expeditions that ultimately connected the Old World with the Americas to ...
The Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919: A Political and Cultural Approach from a COVID World
1st Edition
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By Maximiliano Fuentes Codera
April 13, 2025
Within the framework of a global political and sanitarian crisis that broke out in March 2020, this book proposes a new contemporary look at the great pandemic of the 20th century, the Spanish flu of 1918-1919. Based on its impact in Spain, the book offers a comparative and transatlantic ...
Transnationalism and Migration in Global Korea: History, Politics, and Sociology, 1910 to the Present
1st Edition
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By Joanne Miyang Cho, Lee M. Roberts, Sang Hwan Seong
April 13, 2025
Contrary to the image of Korea as a largely self-contained country until its economy became global during the 1990s, this book shows that transnationalism has firmly been part of modern Korea’s national experience throughout its existence. The volume portrays Korea’s frequent transnational ...
"Dangerous Vagabonds": French Senegal and Resistance to Slave Emancipation
1st Edition
By Robin A. Hardy
March 30, 2025
"Dangerous Vagabonds" examines the problem of illicit slavery in Senegal following the 1848 emancipation law. Where traditional scholarship relates its persistence to the economic and logistic pressures in the region, as well as a strong indigenous tradition of forced labor, this study goes further...
The Psychology of the Armenian Genocide
1st Edition
By George Green
February 25, 2025
This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics, and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate group’s historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries. A unique approach, an analysis of archival documents, including minutes of Turkish ...
Building Europe in New York: From the Munich Conference to the European Coal and Steel Community (1938–1952)
1st Edition
By Enrico Ciappi
January 31, 2025
This book reappraises the origins of the European Union through the lens of the private experts who advised Western governments on war and peace throughout the 1940s, particularly the partnership between the so-called 'Father of Europe' Jean Monnet and the US think tank Council on Foreign Relations...
Women’s Football in Oceania
1st Edition
By Lee McGowan, Kasey Symons, Yoko Kanemasu
January 30, 2025
This book presents the most comprehensive mapping and analysis of women’s football in Oceania and is the first to examine the game’s historical development alongside social, political, and cultural issues, weaving origin stories with players’ day-to-day challenges. Alongside presentation of the ...
1982, Lebanon and the Road to War: Decision-Making on the Road to War and During It
1st Edition
By Yigal Kipnis
December 31, 2024
On June 6, 1982, the Israeli Defence Forces entered Lebanon for what was billed as a relatively limited operation. In reality, the Lebanon War claimed many lives and undermined public trust in decision-makers. Through newly published archival documents, this book explores the events that led to the...