Seminar Studies
About the Book Series
Each book in the Seminar Studies series provides a concise and reliable introduction to a wide range of complex historical events and debates, covering topics in British, European, US and world history from the medieval period to the present day. Written by acknowledged experts and including supporting material such as extracts from historical documents, chronologies, glossaries, guides to key figures and further reading suggestions, Seminar Studies titles are essential reading for students of history.
Almost half a century after its launch, the series continues to introduce students to the problems involved in explaining the past, giving them the opportunity to grapple with historical documents and encouraging them to reach their own conclusions. To submit proposals for new books in the Seminar Studies series, please contact the series editors:
Mark Stoyle: [email protected] Gordon Martel: [email protected]
The European Union Since 1945
3rd Edition
By Alasdair Blair
December 30, 2025
The European Union faces immediate and long-term challenges as it responds to the changing nature of the 21st century global order. Whilst the EU is the world’s most successful multilateral institution that continues to attract applications from prospective member states, it faces the challenge of ...
Impeachment in U.S. History
1st Edition
By William K. Bolt, Scott Kaufman
December 26, 2025
This book offers the most comprehensive study yet of the history behind impeachment in the United States, considering its use against presidents, judges, justices, and members of the cabinet. Although the Founding Fathers intended for the impeachment of federal officials to take place rarely, and ...
Revolutionary Movements in Latin America since 1910
1st Edition
By Anna Clayfield
November 25, 2025
Revolutionary Movements in Latin America since 1910 offers a clear introduction to some of the key revolutionary moments that have occurred across Latin America since the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawing on debates and developments in contemporary historiography, this book examines ...
Origins of the Cold War 1941–1949
6th Edition
By Martin McCauley
July 01, 2025
Now in its sixth edition, Origins of the Cold War 1941–1949 offers a new perspective on the momentous conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States, covering the tumultuous years of 1941 to 1949. Adopting an internationalist approach, McCauley builds on the fifth edition by tracing the ...
The Reagan Revolution
1st Edition
By Prudence Flowers
April 16, 2025
This book offers an overview and analysis of the presidency of Ronald Reagan and the history of conservatism in the United States from the 1960s to the 2020s. Focusing on major events of the 1980s, this book addresses the neo-liberal turn in economics and governance; culture war conflict over ...
Japan at War, 1914–1952
1st Edition
By Jeremy A. Yellen
December 24, 2024
Japan at War, 1914–1952 is a synthetic and interpretive history that highlights the centrality of war to the modern Japanese experience. The author argues that war was central to Japanese life in this period—the era when Japan rose and fell as a world power. The volume examines how World War I set ...
The Mexican Revolution
1st Edition
By Robert Weis
October 01, 2024
This volume untangles the multiple threads of the Mexican Revolution to present an accessible introduction to its causes, development, and consequences. Grounded in a detailed narrative that readers can actively explore through accompanying primary sources, the book also provides a broad view of ...
Women and the First World War
2nd Edition
By Susan Grayzel
December 20, 2023
In this revised version of a ground-breaking global history of women and the First World War, Susan Grayzel shows the multiple ways in which women faced the enormous challenges the war presented, both the losses as well as the opportunities that the war provided. The First World War was a total war...
The Revolting French, 1787–1889
1st Edition
By Pamela Pilbeam
December 12, 2023
This book investigates the impact of revolution on the French from the Revolution of 1789 to its centenary in 1889. It explores specific and linking factors in the main revolts and how historians have differed in their explanations. Revolution has been explained in a multitude of ways from economic...
Capitalism
3rd Edition
By Paul Bowles
September 29, 2023
Exploring the life of the world-shaping system of capitalism and the writings of leading thinkers, this book gives an account of recent developments of capitalism, including the impact of the global Climate Crisis, questions around democracy and capitalism, and the impact of COVID-19. Capitalism ...
Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Michael Bintley, Kate Franklin
August 14, 2023
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the landscapes of the Middle Ages within and beyond Europe, paying close attention to the relationship between ‘real’ and imagined landscapes and the ways that medieval people made and inhabited their world. Rather than studying 'nature' in the Middle ...
Woodrow Wilson: The First World War and Modern Internationalism
1st Edition
By Michael R. Cude
July 28, 2023
This volume contributes to the Routledge Seminar Studies history series by providing a concise narrative overview of the ideas and foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson. It focuses on Wilson’s response to the First World War and his efforts to formulate a new international system, while also outlining...