Routledge Studies in Modern History
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 ...
Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanessa Agnew, Juliane Tomann, Sabine Stach
August 26, 2024
Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History examines reenactment's challenge to traditional modes of understanding the past, asking how experience-based historical knowledge-making relates to memory-making and politics. Reenactment is a global phenomenon that ncompasses ...
Time and Space in the Internet Age
1st Edition
By Stephen Kern
August 01, 2024
This book analyzes how new technologies transformed life and thought between two periods, 1880-1920 and 1980-2020, with a focus on temporal experiences of past, present, future and the spatial experiences of form, distance, and direction. The signature contrast is between experiences of time and ...
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 ...