Routledge Studies in Modern History
Wealth Accumulation and Entrepreneurship in the Ottoman Empire, 18th to 20th Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Christina Chatziioannou, Sophia Laiou
December 23, 2024
This book provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the Ottoman Empire’s economic history, particularly through its exploration of local entrepreneurship, which brings new perspectives to the economic dynamics of the region. This focus adds a valuable dimension to the broader ...
Italy and Libya: From Colonialism to a Special Relationship (1911–2021)
1st Edition
Edited
By Luciano Monzali, Paolo Soave
December 19, 2024
This volume proposes a historical analysis of Italian-Libyan relations in contemporary times. After examining the colonialism of liberal Italy, which in 1911 culminated in the military campaign for the conquest of the Libyan regions, it evaluates the impact of fascism in Libya and the attempt to ...
Antisemitism Before the Holocaust: Re-Evaluating Antisemitic Exceptionalism in Germany and the United States, 1880-1945
1st Edition
By Richard E. Frankel
December 18, 2024
This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in both countries from the 1880s to the end of World War II. Author Richard E. Frankel shatters the ...
Beach Soccer Histories
1st Edition
By Lee McGowan, Elizabeth Ellison, Michele Lastella
December 18, 2024
Beach Soccer Histories is the first text to consider the sport as a historical, social and cultural phenomenon, to define its traditions, and present leading research on the development and significance of football played on sand. Following a period of expansive, rapid growth, beach soccer is an ...
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 ...