Routledge Studies in Modern History
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
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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
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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
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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 ...
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 ...
Sinology during the Cold War
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By Antonina Łuszczykiewicz, Michael Brose
January 29, 2024
This volume provides the first study of the history of sinology (aka China studies) as charted across several communist states during the Cold War. The People’s Republic of China was created in the first years of the Cold War, with its early history and foreign policy intimately bound up in that ...
Gandhi After Gandhi: The Relevance of the Mahatma’s Legacy in Today’s World
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By Marzia Casolari
November 15, 2023
Writing about Gandhi without being obvious is always difficult. Numerous books and articles are published every year, especially across the anniversaries of his birth and death. The judicious scholar believes that writing something new on this iconic figure is almost impossible. However, in the ...
Citizens and Subjects of the Italian Colonies: Legal Constructions and Social Practices, 1882–1943
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By Simona Berhe, Olindo De Napoli
September 25, 2023
This is the first book on Italian colonialism that specifically deals with the question of citizenship/subjecthood. Such a topic is crucial for understanding both Italian imperial rule and the complex dynamics of the different colonial societies where several actors, like notables, political ...
Crafting Turkish National Identity, 1919-1927: A Rhetorical Approach
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By Aysel Morin
September 25, 2023
Examining Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s Büyük Nutuk (The Great Public Address), this book identifies the five founding political myths of Turkey: the First Duty, the Internal Enemy, the Encirclement, the Ancestor, and Modernity. Offering a comprehensive rhetorical analysis of Nutuk in its entirety, the ...
Terrorism: The Power and Weakness of Fear
1st Edition
By Juan Romero
September 25, 2023
This book adopts an innovative historical approach to Terrorism, focusing on the weaknesses of terrorist states and organizations as reflected in the ideologies, methodologies and propaganda of Russian populist, National Socialist and Islamic Terrorism. Drawing upon multilingual primary sources, ...
The Barsden Memoirs (1799-1816): An Australian Transnational Adolescence
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By Grant Rodwell
September 25, 2023
Covering the life of Josephus Henry Barsden from his birth in 1799 through his childhood to 16 years of age, the Barsden memoirs describe events from a Sussex smugglers’ inn, a convict ship to the colony of New South Wales, sealing and whaling expeditions to Van Diemen’s Land, and Barsden’s ...
The Body in the Anglosphere, 1880–1920: "Well Sexed Womanhood," "Finer Natives," and "Very White Men"
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By Robert W. Thurston
September 25, 2023
Focusing on the body in every chapter, this book examines the changing meanings and profound significance of the physical form among the Anglo-Saxons from 1880 to 1920. They formed an imaginary—but, in many ways, quite real—community that ruled much of the world. Among them, racism became more ...