Routledge Studies in Modern History
Crafting Turkish National Identity, 1919-1927: A Rhetorical Approach
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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"
1st Edition
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 ...
The Russian Revolution in Asia: From Baku to Batavia
1st Edition
Edited
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?
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...