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.
British Forces in Germany: A Transnational History of Soldiers, Families, and German Communities, 1945–2019
1st Edition
By Bettina Blum
July 27, 2026
From the end of World War II in 1945 until the drawdown in 2019, about two million British military personnel and their families were stationed in northwestern Germany. This book explores the social, cultural and political impact of this presence on both the military and the host communities. ...
The Politics, Memory, and Commemoration of the Postwar Camps for Germans in Poland (1945-1949): Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence
1st Edition
By Piotr Madajczyk, Magdalena Lemańczyk, Paweł Popielinski
July 27, 2026
This book offers the first systematic comparative analysis of memory politics concerning post-war camps in Poland for the German population (and those classified as German). It examines how this difficult past has been framed, instrumentalised, and negotiated in Poland and Germany across changing ...
In Search of Romanian Jewry Before, During, and After the Holocaust
1st Edition
Edited
By Sylvia Hershcovitz, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
July 26, 2026
Scholarship about Romania and the Holocaust has slowly developed over the eight decades since the end of the Second World War, but there are many aspects that demand further investigation. Examples are studies dealing with gender, art, memorialization, literature, identity, and personal/...
A Modern History of Andorra: Autonomy in the Pyrenean Borderlands
1st Edition
By Martyn Lyons
July 20, 2026
This book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe's micro-states nestled between France and Spain. Despite its medieval institutional framework, Andorra endured into the late 20th century without an army, police, currency, or customs barriers. The book uncovers how Andorra ...
Building Europe Through Education, Building Education Through Europe: Actors, Spaces and Pedagogies in a Historical Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz, Simone Paoli
July 20, 2026
This edited volume explores the role of education in the process of European cooperation and integration as it has been conceived and realized in the late 20th century and the early 21st century, as well as the mirror of this narrative: the effects of the European integration process on education. ...
Discussing Pax Germanica: The Rise and Limits of German Hegemony in European Integration
1st Edition
Edited
By Emmanuel Comte, Fernando Guirao
July 20, 2026
Discussing Pax Germanica: The Rise and Limits of German Hegemony in European Integration examines and reconsiders Germany’s paramount role in shaping European integration from the aftermath of World War II to the present. This volume meticulously explores the ascendancy of Germany to a dominant ...
Educational Internationalism in the Cold War: Plural Visions, Global Experiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Damiano Matasci, Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz
July 20, 2026
This edited volume delves into the intricate landscape of educational internationalism during the Cold War, providing an in-depth examination of its diverse forms, impulses, and global impacts. Through multilingual archival research, the chapters uncover a variety of experiences that have fostered ...
The French-German Dynamic in an Age of Conflict, 1925–1963: Enemies, Collaborators, Friends
1st Edition
By Elana Passman
July 20, 2026
This book investigates the radical transformation of the relationship between Germany and France, neighbors whose border constituted one of the deepest fault lines of European history. For generations, the French and the Germans believed they were “eternal enemies,” and this myth of primordial ...
Britain and Ireland from the Treaty to the Troubles: Independence and Interdependence, c. 1921-1973
1st Edition
By Richard Carr
July 19, 2026
Using extensive and fresh archival material, this book places the relationship between the United Kingdom and Ireland after 1921 in a new light, encouraging us to rethink the dominant narrative of conflict and strife. While the work does not shy away from the clear points of dispute, it contends ...
Gender, Emotion, and the Origins of Democracy in July Monarchy France: The Liberal Crucible
1st Edition
By Jeffrey B. Hobbs
July 19, 2026
This book provides a new perspective on the historical importance of a series of provincial rebellions in France after the Revolution of 1830. It demonstrates their crucial role in the development of popular ideas about liberty and democracy in modern France. Hobbs shows how the Duchesse de Berry’s...
Weapons Law in Western Europe, 1550-2020
1st Edition
By Gunner Lind
July 19, 2026
This book is a transnational history of European weapons law that utilizes the law and primary sources to trace the development from early portable firearms to modern-day weapons. Challenging many conventional assumptions, this book establishes that weapons control in the current sense is a new ...
“Nazi Fantasy”: Vilém Flusser and History as Site of Experiment
1st Edition
By Amos Morris-Reich
July 19, 2026
This book brings together Vilém Flusser and intellectual Jewish history of the second half of the twentieth century. Flusser is viewed today by many scholars as the most original theoretician of media and photography in the second half of the twentieth century, and yet this is the first monograph ...