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.
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 ...
Financing the Franco Regime: The Financial Sector and Institutions in Spain, 1939–1975
1st Edition
Edited
By Joaquim Cuevas, María A. Pons
July 06, 2026
This book analyses the financial policies and institutions developed under the Franco regime over nearly four decades and how key actors – banks, savings banks, the foreign sector, the Banco de España and public debt management – were used to support the regime’s economic objectives. Situating ...
From Democracy to Fascism: Hitler's German Citizenship
1st Edition
By Klaus E. Meyer
July 01, 2026
How did a democratic society turn fascist? This book explores the political dynamics of the Free State of Braunschweig from 1930 to 1933 surrounding Adolf Hitler’s appointment to civil service – a decision enabled by the traditional conservative parties that paved his path to German citizenship. ...
Heroes, Traitors, and Survivors in the Imperial Borderlands: Military Mobilizations in Southeastern Europe, 1908 to 1923
1st Edition
By Jovo Miladinović
June 18, 2026
Heroes, Traitors, and Survivors in the Imperial Borderlands redefines Southeastern Europe’s role in modern military history. Long dismissed as a “powder keg” of violence, the region emerges here as a crucial laboratory of military innovation, governance, and state formation in the early 20th ...
Black Abolitionists in Ireland, Volume 3
1st Edition
By Christine Kinealy
June 09, 2026
This volume traces the experiences of seven African American abolitionists who travelled to Ireland during the tumultuous years after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Eli Stokes, William Allen, Isaac Davison, William Mitchell, William Troy, James Cheeney Thompson, and Robert Maxwell Johnson. Despite...
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Southern Europe: Policy, Economy and Institutional Transformation, 1950s-1980s
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucia Coppolaro, Francesco Petrini, Leonida Tedoldi
June 09, 2026
Offering an interdisciplinary analysis of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank’s (WB) interventions in Southern Europe during a transformative period in the 20th century and focusing on Southern Europe as its geographical frame, this volume brings together leading scholars from ...
A Woman Political Prisoner in Fascist Slovakia: Unlearning Democracy
1st Edition
By Marína Zavacká
June 03, 2026
Mária Janšáková’s 1939 memoir offers a rare, deeply personal account of political repression in wartime Slovakia. Detailing her imprisonment in the Ilava detention camp, she records the harsh physical and psychological conditions of daily life – from solitary confinement in mouldy cells to ...
The United Kingdom and Spain in the Eighteenth Century: Beloved Enemy
1st Edition
Edited
By Manuel-Reyes García Hurtado
May 21, 2026
This book seeks to bridge a gap in the historiography of Spain and Great Britain by arguing that while the eighteenth century witnessed periods of tension, conflict and hostility between the two powers, their relationship remained multifaceted and significant in other spheres. Throughout the ...
1989 in the East: Between Order and Subversion
1st Edition
Edited
By Pascal Bonnard, Carole Sigman
April 15, 2026
1989 in the East revisits the processes that led to the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the USSR. This disintegration appeared to be the result of complex mobilisations where the repertoires of action, the institutional and non-institutional ties, the ...
France's Mediterranean Cold War: From Charles de Gaulle to François Mitterrand
1st Edition
By Nicolas Badalassi
April 09, 2026
This book explores how, following the Algerian War, the Mediterranean emerged as a key battleground of the Cold War for France. Between the 1960s and 1980s, France positioned itself as the United States’ most reliable ally in countering the Soviet Union’s attempts to establish a presence in ...