Routledge Studies in Modern European History
About the Book Series
This path-breaking series examines particular events, movements and people involved in the making of contemporary Europe. Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has presented diverse maps of division and union, conflict, peace and revolution across shifting national and racial boundaries. The volumes in this series aim to re-frame the history of the continent and its place in the world as the millennium.
Hitler’s Brudervolk: The Dutch and the Colonization of Occupied Eastern Europe, 1939-1945
1st Edition
By Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel
October 13, 2017
This is the first academic book on Dutch colonial aspirations and initiatives during WWII. Between the summers of 1941 and 1944, some 5,500 Dutch men and women left their occupied homeland to find employment in the so-called German Occupied Eastern Territories: Belarus, the Baltic countries and ...
History, Memory, and Trans-European Identity: Unifying Divisions
1st Edition
By Aline Sierp
June 16, 2017
This book questions the presupposition voiced by many historians and political scientists that political experiences in Europe continue to be interpreted in terms of national history, and that a European community of remembrance still does not exist. By tracing the evolution of specific memory ...
War, Agriculture, and Food: Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Brassley, Yves Segers, Leen Van Molle
May 31, 2017
Between the 1930s and the 1950s rural life in Europe underwent profound changes, partly as a result of the Second World War, and partly as a result of changes which had been in progress over many years. This book examines a range of European countries, from Scandinavia to Spain and Ireland to ...
Alan S. Milward and a Century of European Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Fernando Guirao, Frances Lynch, Sigfrido M. Ramirez Perez
May 24, 2017
The main purpose of the book is to introduce the work of Alan S. Milward and to acknowledge the full magnitude of his scientific contribution to contemporary British and European history. The book is a collection of essays which provide a better understanding of Alan Milward’s extensive ...
Constructing a German Diaspora: The "Greater German Empire", 1871-1914
1st Edition
By Stefan Manz
February 07, 2017
This book takes on a global perspective to unravel the complex relationship between Imperial Germany and its diaspora. Around 1900, German-speakers living abroad were tied into global power-political aspirations. They were represented as outposts of a "Greater German Empire" whose ethnic links had ...
Britain and the Problem of International Disarmament: 1919-1934
1st Edition
By Carolyn J. Kitching
May 13, 2016
In the aftermath of the Great War, multilateral disarmament was placed at the top of the international agenda by the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant of the League of Nations. This book analyzes the naval, air and land disarmament policies of successive British governments from 1919 to 1934, ...
British Foreign Policy 1874-1914: The Role of India
1st Edition
By Sneh Mahajan
November 24, 2015
A challenging analysis of British Foreign Policy is provided at a time when Britain possessed the biggest Empire that humankind has ever known. In this Empire India had a unique position, comprising 97 per cent of Britain's Asiatic Empire. All British statesmen deemed it essential to maintain their...
Totalitarian Dictatorship: New Histories
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniela Baratieri, Mark Edele, Giuseppe Finaldi
October 16, 2015
This book locates totalitarianism in the vastly complex web of fragmented pasts, diverse presents, and differently envisaged futures to enhance understanding of the fraught era in European history. It explores empirical ways to the resurgence of the concept of totalitarian dictatorship....
From Slave Trade to Empire: European Colonisation of Black Africa 1780s-1880s
1st Edition
Edited
By Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau
February 27, 2015
Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and...
Weimar Cities: The Challenge of Urban Modernity in Germany, 1919–1933
1st Edition
By John Bingham
December 22, 2014
Weimar Cities explores Germany's efforts to come to grips with its great cities after World War I; by extension the book measures the feasibility of the postwar experiment that was the Weimar Republic. The book focuses particularly on the weakness, both local and national, that ...
Racial Theories in Fascist Italy
1st Edition
By Aaron Gillette
August 12, 2014
Racial Theories in Fascist Italy examines the role played by race and racism in the development of Italian identity during the fascist period. The book examines the struggle between Mussolini, the fascist hierarchy, scientists and others in formulating a racial persona that would gain wide ...
Facing Fascism: The Conservative Party and The European Dictators 1935 -1940
1st Edition
By N.J. Crowson
February 25, 2014
This book examines the Conservative party's responses to the problems of fascism from 1935 - 1940. Crowson provides the historical context for the foreign policy of the period and examines the historiography of the Conservative party. He offers a new perspective on its policies and the reaction of ...