Routledge Studies in Modern History
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
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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
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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 ...
(Post)Colonial Ports: Place and (Non)Place in the Ecotone
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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
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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
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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...