Routledge Studies in Modern History
Britain and Japan in the 1973 Middle East Oil Crisis: Washington’s Silent Partners
1st Edition
By Erika Miller
June 17, 2024
Miller examines Britain and Japan’s involvement in the Middle East peace process after the October War of 1973 and how it contributed to the resolution of the oil crisis of 1973–74. Using important primary sources from Japan, Britain, and the United States—including recently declassified Japanese ...
British West Indian Newspapers and the Abolition of Slavery
1st Edition
By Andrew Lewis
June 07, 2024
This book is the first overall survey of the British West Indian press in the early nineteenth century—a critical period in the history of the region. Based on extensive and ground-breaking archival research, this volume provides an in-depth history of early nineteenth-century British West Indian ...
Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries
1st Edition
By Xin Liu
May 27, 2024
Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries studies the fascinating encounters between the two historic empires from Queen Elizabeth I’s first letter to the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1583, to Lord Palmerston’s letter to the Minister of China in 1840. Starting...
Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea: Specters of Western Metaphysics
1st Edition
By Hannah Amaris Roh
May 27, 2024
One of the first philosophical approaches to the study of Korea’s ethnic nationalism, Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea traces the impact of Christianity in the formation of Korean national identity, outlining the metaphysical origins of the concept of ...
Jewish Self-Defense in South America: Facing Anti-Semitism with a Club in Hand
1st Edition
By Raanan Rein
May 27, 2024
Jewish Self-Defense in South America charts the ways in which Jewish youth in Argentina and Uruguay organized self-defense groups in the wake of an anti-Semitic wave that swept the Southern Cone in the 1960s. The kidnapping of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960 and his trial ...
Journalists and Knowledge Practices: Histories of Observing the Everyday in the Newspaper Age
1st Edition
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By Hansjakob Ziemer
May 27, 2024
This multi-disciplinary anthology provides new perspectives on the journalist’s role in knowledge generation in the newspaper age—covering diverse topics from fake news to new technologies. Fake news, journalistic authority, and the introduction of cutting-edge technologies are often viewed as new ...
Missionaries and the Colonial State: Radicalism and Governance in Rwanda and Burundi, 1900-1972
1st Edition
By David Whitehouse
May 27, 2024
Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume unravels these agendas and challenges received wisdom on the histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the colonial relationship between state and mission. The ...
The City and the Railway in the World from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
1st Edition
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By Ralf Roth, Paul Van Heesvelde
May 27, 2024
This volume explores the relationship between cities and railways over three centuries. Despite their nearly 200-year existence, The City and the Railway in the World shows that urban railways are still politically and historically important to the modern world. Since its inception, cities have ...
Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering, Surveying, and Ordering
1st Edition
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By Jörn Happel, Melanie Hussinger, Hajo Raupach
April 24, 2024
This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical, colonial and violent appropriation during the 19th century. The 19th century was the century of world travel. The earth was explored, surveyed, described, illustrated, and categorized. Travelogues became world ...
British Malta, 1798–1835: The Trifling Jewel
1st Edition
By Andrew T. Zwilling
April 09, 2024
British Malta, 1798–1835 explores the incorporation and early administration of Malta as a British protectorate, and later as a Crown colony. Few connections existed between Great Britain and Malta before 1798, but Napoleon’s Mediterranean ambitions forged a link that remained even after the ...
How the World Hunger Problem Was not Solved
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By Christian Gerlach
February 14, 2024
The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern’ inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation. This would turn subsistence producers into business owners, transform rural areas,...
Intervention and Disarmament: In a Culturally Diverse World
1st Edition
By Philip Towle
January 29, 2024
In this book, some of Philip Towle’s major contributions are brought together to shed light on the Cold War and its aftermath. Topics include the build-up of chemical and nuclear weapons, the attack on New York’s World Trade Center in 2001, intervention in overseas conflicts and the role of the ...