Routledge Studies in Modern History
The Antifascist Chronicles of Aurelio Pego: A Critical Anthology
1st Edition
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By Montse Feu
May 31, 2023
The Antifascist Chronicles of Aurelio Pego: A Critical Anthology collects and contextualizes Pego’s 118 literary chronicles published between 1940 and 1967 in the periodical España Libre, New York. The satire of this household name in the US Spanish-language press lambasted Fascist Spain, lampooned...
Transatlantic Relations and the Great War: Austria-Hungary and the United States
1st Edition
By Kurt Bednar
May 31, 2023
Transatlantic Relations and the Great War explores the relations between the Danube Monarchy of Austria-Hungary and the modern US democracy and how that relationship developed over decades until it ended in a final rupture. As the First World War drew to a close in late 1918, the Mid-European Union...
Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898–1945: Unsparing Honesty
1st Edition
By Walter A. Jackson
January 09, 2023
Alva and Gunnar Myrdal are the only couple ever awarded Nobel prizes as individuals: Gunnar won the prize in Economics in 1974, and Alva won the Peace Prize in 1982. This dual biography examines their work as architects of the modern welfare state and probes the connections between the public and ...
Atlantic Crossroads: Webs of Migration, Culture and Politics between Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1800–2020
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By José Moya
January 09, 2023
Unlike most books on the Atlantic that associate its history with European colonialism and thus end in 1800, this volume demonstrates that the Atlantic connections not only outlasted colonialism, they also reached unprecedented levels in postcolonial times, when the Atlantic truly became the world’...
Children Born of War: Past, Present and Future
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By Sabine Lee, Heide Glaesmer, Barbara Stelzl-Marx
January 09, 2023
This volume presents research from an international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral research project in which 15 doctoral researchers explored a range of issues related to the life-course experiences of children born of war in 20th-century conflicts. Children Born of War (CBOW), children...
Engaging with Historical Traumas: Experiential Learning and Pedagogies of Resilience
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By Nena Močnik, Ger Duijzings, Hanna Meretoja, Bonface Njeresa Beti
January 09, 2023
This book provides case-studies of how teachers and practitioners have attempted to develop more effective ‘experiential learning’ strategies in order to better equip students for their voluntary engagements in communities, working for sustainable peace and a tolerant society free of discrimination...
Experiences of War in Europe and the Americas, 1792–1815: Soldiers, Slaves, and Civilians
1st Edition
By Mark Lawrence
January 09, 2023
This work seeks to offer a new way of viewing the French Wars of 1792–1815. Most studies of this period offer international, political, and military analyses using the French Revolution and Napoleon as the prime mover. But this book focuses on military and civilian responses to French Revolutionary...
Food History: A Feast of the Senses in Europe, 1750 to the Present
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By Sylvie Vabre, Martin Bruegel, Peter J. Atkins
January 09, 2023
This pioneering book elevates the senses to a central role in the study of food history because the traditional focus upon food types, quantities, and nutritional values is incomplete without some recognition of smell, touch, sight, hearing, and taste. Eating is a sensual experience. Every day and ...
Histories of Surveillance from Antiquity to the Digital Era: The Eyes and Ears of Power
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By Andreas Marklund, Laura Skouvig
January 09, 2023
Deploying empirical studies spanning from early Imperial China to the present day, 17 scholars from across the globe explore the history of surveillance with special attention to the mechanisms of power that impel the concept of surveillance in society. By delving into a broad range of historical ...
Labour and Economic Change in Southern Africa c.1900-2000: Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi
1st Edition
By Rory Pilossof, Andrew Cohen
January 09, 2023
This book explores the social and economic development of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi over the course of the twentieth century. These three countries have long shared and interconnected pasts. All three were drawn into the British Empire at a similar time and the formation of the ill-fated ...
Nietzsche, Heidegger and Colonialism: Occupying South East Asia
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By R.B.E. Price
January 09, 2023
This text argues that Nietzsche’s idea of invalid policy that is believed to be valid and Heidegger’s concept of doubt as the reason for a representation are essentially the same idea. Using this insight, the text investigates vignettes from colonial occupation in Southeast Asia and its protest ...
Sun Yatsen, Robert Wilcox and Their Failed Revolutions, Honolulu and Canton 1895: Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer
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By Patrick Anderson
January 09, 2023
Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer is the radical, explosive retelling of the first decade of the 'Father of Modern China' Dr Sun Yatsen’s globally shaped formation as a professional revolutionist, and of the impact of the adult Sun’s revolutionary relationship with Hawaiʻi and with his varied ...