Routledge Studies in Modern History
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 ...
Overseas Economic Relations and Statehood in Europe, 1860s–1970s: Shaping the World, Making the Nation
1st Edition
By Gerold Krozewski
October 08, 2024
Drawing on official, archival, and published sources, this book explores how the formative history of the European nation-state was embedded within economic globalization and associated with conceptions of the world overseas. With a particular focus on France, Germany, Italy, and Britain, this ...
South Korea's Origins and Early Relations with the United States: The Lynchpin of Hegemonic Power
1st Edition
By Hyeonji Cha, Hyun Jin Kim
October 08, 2024
Bringing a fresh perspective to an understudied area, this book offers a critical, source-based examination and assessment of the roles of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (KPG) and the US during World War II in the rebirth of Korea as a nation state. Presenting original ...
Displaced Persons, Resettlement and the Legacies of War: From War Zones to New Homes
1st Edition
By Jessica Stroja
October 07, 2024
This book provides a case study on the ongoing impact of displacement and encampment of refugees who do not have access to resettlement support services or are resettled in locations of low cultural and linguistic diversity. Following the journeys of displaced families and children who left ...
Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950
1st Edition
By Ines Prodöhl
October 04, 2024
Globalizing the Soybean asks how the soybean conquered the West and analyzes why and how the crop gained entry into agriculture and industry in regions beyond Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Historian Ines Prodöhl describes the soybean’s journey centered on three hubs: Northeast ...
The Essential Speeches of the Cold War: A Primary Source Collection
1st Edition
By Sean Brennan
September 24, 2024
This book is a primary source collection of 30 speeches of the Cold War from 1917 to 1991, representing a cross section of leaders on all sides of the conflict from North America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. As ideological conflict between superpowers returns to the world, it is more ...
Appearance and Identity Crisis in Modern Indian History: The Third Design (1857 A.D. – 2014 A.D.)
1st Edition
By Jeevan Jyoti Chakarawarti
September 11, 2024
Chakarawarti explores the history of Indian eunuchs from the Mughal empire’s fall following the mutiny of 1857 A.D. to the Supreme Court of India’s historic ruling in 2014 A.D. This book examines the social, political, economic, and religious aspects of Indian eunuchs’ lives, providing a true ...
Defrosting the Cold War and Beyond: An Introduction to the Helsinki Process, 1954–2022
1st Edition
By Richard Davy
August 26, 2024
This volume tells the story of the Helsinki Process from the immediate post-war period through the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975 to the collapse of the Soviet empire and up to the present day. Treating it as a single narrative in the search for a just and stable order in Europe adds ...
Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution: Emotions, Power and Legitimacy in the Atlantic Space
1st Edition
By Moisés Prieto
August 26, 2024
Between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the idea of dictatorship changed drastically, leaving back the ancient Roman paradigm and opening the way to a rule with extraordinary powers and which was unlimited in time. While the French Revolution produced an acceleration of history ...