Routledge Worlds
About the Book Series
The Routledge Worlds are magisterial surveys of key historical epochs, edited and written by world-renowned experts. Giving unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage, they are the works against which all future books on their subjects will be judged and are essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the subject.
The Iberian World: 1450–1820
1st Edition
Edited
By Fernando Bouza, Pedro Cardim, Antonio Feros
June 30, 2021
The Iberian World: 1450–1820 brings together, for the first time in English, the latest research in Iberian studies, providing in-depth analysis of fifteenth- to early nineteenth-century Portugal and Spain, their European possessions, and the African, Asian, and American peoples that were under ...
The Ming World
1st Edition
Edited
By Kenneth M Swope
June 30, 2021
The Ming World draws together scholars from all over the world to bring China’s Ming Dynasty (1368-1662) to life, exploring recent scholarly trends and academic debates that highlight the dynamism of the Ming and its key place in the early modern world. The book is designed to replicate the ...
The Elamite World
1st Edition
Edited
By Javier Álvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, Yasmina Wicks
March 31, 2021
Amongst the civilizations to participate in the dynamic processes of contact and interchange that gave rise to complex societies in the ancient Near East, Elam has remained one of the most obscure, at times languishing in the background of scholarly inquiry. In recent years, however, an increasing ...
The Syriac World
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel King
December 18, 2020
This volume surveys the 'Syriac world', the culture that grew up among the Syriac-speaking communities from the second century CE and which continues to exist and flourish today, both in its original homeland of Syria and Mesopotamia, and in the worldwide diaspora of Syriac-speaking ...
The Gothic World
1st Edition
Edited
By Glennis Byron, Dale Townshend
September 18, 2019
The Gothic World offers an extensive overview of the popular field of the Gothic, from the eighteenth century through to the present day. Encompassing the literary, it also extends critical debate in exciting new directions, including film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art, music...
The Fin-de-Siècle World
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Saler
June 08, 2018
This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval ...
The Medieval World
2nd Edition
Edited
By Peter Linehan, Janet L. Nelson, Marios Costambeys
February 12, 2018
Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle Ages to life, offering definitive appraisals of the distinctive features of the period. This second edition includes six additional chapters, covering ...
The Etruscan World
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean MacIntosh Turfa
August 29, 2017
The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and ...
The Modernist World
1st Edition
Edited
By Allana Lindgren, Stephen Ross
June 16, 2017
The Modernist World is an accessible yet cutting edge volume which redraws the boundaries and connections among interdisciplinary and transnational modernisms. Over 60 new essays are equally divided to address literature, visual arts, theatre, dance, architecture, music and film, ...
The Orthodox Christian World
1st Edition
Edited
By Augustine Casiday
June 16, 2017
Over the last century unprecedented numbers of Christians from traditionally Orthodox societies migrated around the world. Once seen as an ‘oriental’ or ‘eastern’ phenomenon, Orthodox Christianity is now much more widely dispersed, and in many parts of the modern world one need not go far to find ...
The World of Indigenous North America
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Warrior
March 14, 2017
The World of Indigenous North America is a comprehensive look at issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this fertile area of inquiry, this book takes on the fields of law, archaeology, literature, ...
The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Shankman
March 14, 2017
In its early years, the American Republic was far from stable. Conflict and violence, including major land wars, were defining features of the period from the Revolution to the outbreak of the Civil War, as struggles over who would control land and labor were waged across the North American ...