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.
The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual Culture of the News, 1842-1870
1st Edition
By Thomas Smits
August 02, 2021
This book looks at the roots of a global visual news culture: the trade in illustrations of the news between European illustrated newspapers in the mid-nineteenth century. In the age of nationalism, we might suspect these publications to be filled with nationally produced content, supporting a ...
1989 and the West: Western Europe since the End of the Cold War
1st Edition
Edited
By Eleni Braat, Pepijn Corduwener
June 30, 2021
Back in 1989, many anticipated that the end of the Cold War would usher in the ‘end of history’ characterized by the victory of democracy and capitalism. At the thirtieth anniversary of this momentous event, this book challenges this assumption. It studies the most recent era of contemporary ...
Fascism and Ideology: Italy, Britain, and Norway
1st Edition
By Salvatore Garau
June 30, 2021
This book develops a number of new conceptual tools to tackle some of the most hotly debated issues concerning the nature of fascism, using three profoundly different national contexts in the inter-war years as case studies: Italy, Britain and Norway. It explores how fascist ideology was the result...
Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Enda Delaney, Breandán Mac Suibhne
June 30, 2021
Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to land activist Michael Davitt, the starving made little or no ...
Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe: The Influence of Smaller Powers
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurien Crump, Susanna Erlandsson
June 30, 2021
The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. ...
Oil Exploration, Diplomacy, and Security in the Early Cold War: The Enemy Underground
1st Edition
By Roberto Cantoni
June 30, 2021
The importance of oil for national military-industrial complexes appeared more clearly than ever in the Cold War. This volume argues that the confidential acquisition of geoscientific knowledge was paramount for states, not only to provide for their own energy needs, but also to buttress ...
Circles of the Russian Revolution: Internal and International Consequences of the Year 1917 in Russia
1st Edition
Edited
By Łukasz Adamski, Bartłomiej Gajos
March 31, 2021
This volume provides the English-speaking reader with little-known perspectives of Central and Eastern European historians on the topic of the Russian Revolution. Whereas research into the Soviet Union’s history has flourished at Western universities, the contribution of Central and Eastern ...
Fighting the Cold War in Post-Blockade, Pre-Wall Berlin: Behind Enemy Lines
1st Edition
By Mark Fenemore
March 31, 2021
As fought in 1950s Berlin, the cold war was a many-headed monster. Winning stomachs with enticing consumption was as important as winning hearts and minds with persuasive propaganda. Demonstrators not only fought the police in the streets; they were swayed one way or another by cultural competition...
Strange Allies: Britain, France and the Dilemmas of Disarmament and Security, 1929-1933
1st Edition
By Andrew Webster
March 31, 2021
Strange Allies examines three intersecting themes of fundamental importance to the international history of the period between the two world wars. First, and most broadly, it is a study of the international history of the pivotal ‘hinge years’, running from the onset of the Depression in late 1929 ...
Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past
1st Edition
Edited
By Róisín Healy
December 18, 2020
The "new mobilities paradigm" which emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century has identified mobility as a process intrinsic to the human experience and fundamental to the formation of social and political structures. This volume breaks new ground by demonstrating the role of the journey...
Alan S. Milward and Contemporary European History: Collected Academic Reviews
1st Edition
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By Fernando Guirao, Frances M.B. Lynch
September 30, 2020
Alan S. Milward was a renowned historian of contemporary Europe. In addition to his books, as well as articles and chapters in edited books, he also wrote nearly 250 book reviews and review articles, some in French and German, which were published in journals world-wide. Taken together they reveal ...
Food and Age in Europe, 1800-2000
1st Edition
Edited
By Tenna Jensen, Caroline Nyvang, Peter Scholliers, Peter Atkins
September 30, 2020
People eat and drink very differently throughout their life. Each stage has diets with specific ingredients, preparations, palates, meanings and settings. Moreover, physicians, authorities and general observers have particular views on what and how to eat according to age. All this has changed ...