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.
Financing the Franco Regime: The Financial Sector and Institutions in Spain, 1939–1975
1st Edition
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
Cultural Diplomacy in Southern Europe: Spain, Portugal and Greece in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
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By Marició Janué i Miret, Eva March, José-Miguel Pacheco Castelao, Albert Presas i Puig
March 16, 2026
This book offers a comprehensive overview of how culture, science, technology and academic activity functioned as instruments of cultural diplomacy and soft power in Spain, Portugal and Greece during the interwar and Cold War periods. Cultural Diplomacy in Southern Europe is particularly timely due...
The Irish Free State and the National Army, 1922–24
1st Edition
By Jack Kavanagh
February 20, 2026
This account of the National Army during the Irish civil war tells its story from the divides created in the Republican movement by the Anglo-Irish Treaty to the development of a new military organisation capable of upholding the Treaty provisions and facilitating the establishment of a new state. ...
ETA and the “Basque Problem”: The View from London (1968–93)
1st Edition
By Niall Cullen
February 16, 2026
Drawing on extensive archival research at the UK National Archives, this volume examines how “London” (primarily British diplomats in Spain and officials at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) perceived the radical Basque nationalist group ETA's campaign of violence from 1968 to 1993. In the ...