Routledge Studies in Modern History
The Russian Revolution in Asia: From Baku to Batavia
1st Edition
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By Sabine Dullin, Étienne Forestier-Peyrat, Yuexin Rachel Lin, Naoko Shimazu
September 25, 2023
The Russian Revolution in Asia: From Baku to Batavia presents a unique and timely global history intervention into the historiography of the Russian Revolution of 1917, marking the centenary of one of the most significant modern revolutions. It explores the legacies of the Revolution across the ...
Colonising New Zealand: A Reappraisal
1st Edition
By Paul Moon
May 31, 2023
Colonising New Zealand offers a radically new vision of the basis and process of Britain’s colonisation of New Zealand. It commences by confronting the problems arising from subjective and ever-evolving moral judgements about colonisation and examines the possibility of understanding colonisation ...
Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide?
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By John Cox, Amal Khoury, Sarah Minslow
May 31, 2023
Genocide denial not only abuses history and insults the victims but paves the way for future atrocities. Yet few, if any, books have offered a comparative overview and analysis of this problem. Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide? is a resource for understanding and countering denial. Denial ...
Dictatorship in the Nineteenth Century: Conceptualisations, Experiences, Transfers
1st Edition
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By Moisés Prieto
May 31, 2023
Historical research on modern dictatorship has often neglected the relevance of the nineteenth century, instead focusing on twentieth-century dictatorial rules. Dictatorship in the Nineteenth Century brings together scholars of political thought, the history of ideas and gender studies in order to ...
Koreans in Transnational Diasporas of the Russian Far East and Manchuria, 1895–1920: Arirang People
1st Edition
By Hye Ok Park
May 31, 2023
Much attention has been paid to the Japanese deployment of Koreans in their war efforts during WWII. Much less attention, however, has been given to the subject prior to 1910. This book will: 1) present the evidence which reveals the presence of Koreans in the Japanese military during the ...
The Antifascist Chronicles of Aurelio Pego: A Critical Anthology
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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...