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.
Britain, France and the Battle for the Leadership of Europe, 1957-2007
1st Edition
By Richard Davis
May 27, 2025
The book gives an account of an essential part of Britain’s troubled relationship with the rest of Europe after 1945 – particularly considering the rivalry of France and Britain between 1945 and 2007. The record of Britain’s relations with the rest of Europe, and in particular with France, from ...
Mussolini and the Rise of Populism: The Man who Made Fascism
1st Edition
By Spencer DiScala
December 18, 2024
This book analyzes the process by which Mussolini built the world’s first Fascist regime, describes how the Duce’s heirs have adapted to current political conditions, and how they have gone mainstream. With the rise of populism of the right in the new millennium, Benito Mussolini’s name has ...
Obscene Traffic: Prostitution and Global Migrations from the Italian Perspective (1890–1940)
1st Edition
By Laura Schettini
December 18, 2024
This book explores the early globalization of prostitution from the perspective of the Italian case. It is a story of prostitution, migration, and work, built through analyses of primary sources (the Italian archive of International Police) and covering a wide chronological period, from the end of...
Antifascism After Hitler: East German Youth and Socialist Memory, 1949-1989
1st Edition
By Catherine Plum
October 14, 2024
Antifascism After Hitler investigates the antifascist stories, memory sites and youth reception that were critical to the success of political education in East German schools and extracurricular activities. As the German Democratic Republic (GDR) promoted national identity and socialist ...
European Border Regions in Comparison: Overcoming Nationalistic Aspects or Re-Nationalization?
1st Edition
Edited
By Katarzyna Stokłosa, Gerhard Besier
October 14, 2024
Borders exist in almost every sphere of life. Initially, borders were established in connection with kingdoms, regions, towns, villages and cities. With nation-building, they became important as a line separating two national states with different “national characteristics,” narratives and myths. ...
Landscapes of the Western Front: Materiality During the Great War
1st Edition
By Ross Wilson
October 14, 2024
This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the ...
Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany: The "Euthanasia Programs"
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Benedict, Linda Shields
October 14, 2024
This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery, and how these were abrogated during the Nazi era. Nurses and midwives actively killed their patients, many of whom were disabled children and infants and patients with mental (and other) illnesses or intellectual disabilities. The book gives ...
The Red Brigades and the Discourse of Violence: Revolution and Restoration
1st Edition
By Marco Briziarelli
October 14, 2024
This book explores the communicative practices of the Italian radical group Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, or BR), the relationship the group established with the Italian press, and the specific social historical context in which the BR developed both its own self-understanding and its ...
Turkey and the Rescue of European Jews
1st Edition
By I. Izzet Bahar
October 14, 2024
This book exposes Turkish policies concerning European Jews during the Hitler era, focusing on three events: 1. The recruitment of German Jewish scholars by the Turkish government after Hitler came to power, 2. The fate of Jews of Turkish origin in German-controlled France during WWII, 3. The ...
West Germans and the Nazi Legacy
1st Edition
By Caroline Sharples
October 14, 2024
This book constitutes a new history of the complex memory cultures that persisted within post-war West Germany, examining the attitudes of ordinary people to the second wave of Nazi war crimes trials ushered in during the 1960s. It explores responses to the prospect of continuing investigations, ...
The Brandt Commission and the Multinationals: Planetary Perspectives
1st Edition
By Bo Stråth
August 26, 2024
Set against the backdrop of dramatic world order transformations across the 1970s and 1980s, this book examines the competing planetary perspectives of the Brandt Commission and the multinationals, arguing that the missed opportunities of these decades created a path for contemporary political and ...
Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe
1st Edition
By Péter Bencsik
May 27, 2024
This book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the history of passports, border surveillance, border crossing, and other elements of European border regimes in the 20th century. Border regime is interpreted widely, including inbound and outbound travels, permanent and ...