Routledge Studies in Modern History
Interacting Francoism: Entanglement, Comparison and Transfer between Dictatorships in the 20th Century
1st Edition
Edited
By José M. Faraldo, Gutmaro Gómez Bravo
December 18, 2024
The book presents various investigation into 20th-century European dictatorships, with its focus on Franco`s dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War. Francisco Franco’s dictatorship in Spain (1936/1939-1975/1978) was a modern form of authoritarianism, with a strong totalitarian period, like many ...
The Saga of Edmund Burke: From His Age to Ours
1st Edition
By Mark Hulliung
December 18, 2024
This book offers an examination of responses to Edmund Burke from the last decades of the eighteenth century to the present day, ending with the question whether there is still a role for him to play in post-Thatcher England. It includes a chapter asking the same question about America. The sharp ...
Tourism in Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
1st Edition
By Martino Lorenzo Fagnani, Luciano Maffi
December 18, 2024
This book analyzes the roots of one of the main human activities that can be developed in natural and agricultural ecosystems: tourism. Attention to natural and agricultural ecosystems and their conservation has intensified in recent decades, responding to increasing social sensitivity to the ...
Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World
1st Edition
Edited
By Eveline Bouwers
November 28, 2024
This book analyzes violence involving Catholics in the nineteenth-century world – revealing the motives for violence, showing the link between religious and secular grievances, and illuminating Catholic pluralism. Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World is the first study to ...
Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Between Loyalty and Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Lauwers, Sami Suodenjoki, Marnix Beyen
November 28, 2024
Approaching subalternity from a broad Gramscian angle, this edited collection contributes to the understanding of popular politics in parliamentary, autocratic, and colonial contexts. The book explores individual stories and micro-histories of complaints, requests, rumors, and other mediated and ...
The Greek Revolution and the Greek Diaspora in the United States
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Kaliambou
November 28, 2024
This book examines the question of historical awareness within the Greek communities in the diaspora, adding a new perspective on the discussion about the Greek Revolution of 1821 by including the forgotten Greeks in the United States and Canada. The purpose of this volume is to discuss the impact ...
Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century: A Global History
1st Edition
By Lucia Ceci
October 14, 2024
Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century presents a historical reconstruction of the ways in which Catholics have justified the recourse to political violence during the twentieth century, a period marked by major wars, nationalisms, decolonization, ideological clashes, and ...
The Global History of the Balfour Declaration: Declared Nation
1st Edition
By Maryanne A. Rhett
October 14, 2024
This book examines the development and issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the document that set the stage for the creation of the state of Israel, within its global setting. The heart of the book demonstrates that the Declaration developed and contributed to a juncture in a global dialogue about ...
The Ideological Cold War: The Politics of Neutrality in Austria and Finland
1st Edition
By Johanna Rainio-Niemi
October 14, 2024
This book opens new perspectives into the Cold War ideological confrontations. Using Austria and Finland as an example, it shows how the Cold War battles for the hearts and minds of the people also influenced policies in countries that wished to stay outside the conflict. Following the ...
War and Displacement in the Twentieth Century: Global Conflicts
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Barkhof, Angela K. Smith
October 14, 2024
Human displacement has always been a consequence of war, written into the myths and histories of centuries of warfare. However, the global conflicts of the twentieth century brought displacement to civilizations on an unprecedented scale, as the two World Wars shifted participants around the globe....
How the Church Under Pius XII Addressed Decolonization: The Issue of Algerian Independence
1st Edition
By Marialuisa Lucia Sergio
October 08, 2024
By paying attention to Algerian Independence, this book reconstructs the action of the Catholic Church regarding the issues of the spread of Islam in colonies, to Arab nationalism, Marxist propaganda in non-European countries, and the effects of the Algerian crisis upon the French political system....
Khoesan and Imperial Citizenship in Nineteenth Century South Africa
1st Edition
By Jared McDonald
October 08, 2024
This volume explores the formative and expressive dynamics of Khoesan identity during a crucial period of incorporation as an underclass into Cape colonial society. Khoesan and Imperial Citizenship in Nineteenth Century South Africa emphasises loyalism and subjecthood – posited as imperial ...