Routledge Studies in Modern History
Ruler Personality Cults from Empires to Nation-States and Beyond: Symbolic Patterns and Interactional Dynamics
1st Edition
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By Kirill Postoutenko, Darin Stephanov
April 29, 2022
Encompassing five continents and twenty centuries, this book puts ruler personality cults on the crossroads of disciplines rarely, if ever, juxtaposed before: among its authors are historians, linguists, media scholars, political scientists and communication sociologists from Europe, the United ...
The Grand Strategies of Great Powers
1st Edition
By Tudor A. Onea
April 29, 2022
What is grand strategy and what is it good for? What are great powers, and which states are great powers today? What are the grand strategies available to great powers? What are the conditions under which a certain strategy is suitable and when should it be rejected? What are the factors affecting ...
The United Nations and Decolonization
1st Edition
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By Nicole Eggers, Jessica Lynne Pearson, Aurora Almada e Santos
April 29, 2022
Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories. The authors in this book explore this dynamic in order...
Immigration Policy from 1970 to the Present
1st Edition
By Rachel Stevens
December 13, 2021
This book examines national debates on immigration, asylum seekers and guest worker programs from 1970 to the present. Over the past 45 years, contemporary immigration has had a profound impact throughout North America, Europe and Australasia, yet the admission of ethnically diverse immigrants was ...
Alcohol Flows Across Cultures: Drinking Cultures in Transnational and Comparative Perspective
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By Waltraud Ernst
September 30, 2021
This book maps changing patterns of drinking. Emphasis is laid on the connected histories of different regions and populations across the globe regarding consumption patterns, government policies, economics and representations of alcohol and drinking.Its transnational perspective facilitates an ...
Intellectuals in the Latin Space during the Era of Fascism: Crossing Borders
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By Valeria Galimi, Annarita Gori
September 30, 2021
This volume investigates a galaxy of diverse networks and intellectual actors who engaged in a broad political environment, from conservatism to the most radical right, between the World Wars. Looking beyond fascism, it considers the less-investigated domain of the 'Latin space', which is both...
Red Money for the Global South: East–South Economic Relations in the Cold War
1st Edition
By Max Trecker
September 30, 2021
Red Money for the Global South explores the relationship of the East with the “new” South after decolonization, with a particular focus on the economic motives of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) and other parties that were all striving for mutual cooperation.During the Cold War, ...
The Co-opting of Education by Extremist Factions: Professing Hate
1st Edition
By Sarah Gendron
September 30, 2021
The Co-opting of Education by Extremist Factions: Professing Hate is a study of the ways in which various extremist groups have appropriated education for social manipulation in order to gain political power, and, in some cases, to incite violence. It is a detailed exploration of case studies ...
Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century
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By James Gregory, Daniel Grey
August 02, 2021
This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with union, concord and bonds of sympathy, but also through moments of secession, separation, discord and disjunction. Its lens extends from the local and regional, through to ...
1917 and the Consequences
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By Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stokłosa
June 30, 2021
The Russian Revolution of 1917 has been one of the most important events of modern history. It changed the course of the events not only in Russia but, on a wider scale, across the world while it influenced the flow of history throughout the twentieth century until the fall of the Soviet Union and,...
Castro and Franco: The Backstage of Cold War Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Haruko Hosoda
June 30, 2021
Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Spain’s Francisco Franco were two men with very similar backgrounds but very different political ideologies. Both received a Catholic education and had strong connections to the Galicia region of Spain. Both were familiar with guerrilla tactics and came to power through ...
Constructing Nationalism in Iran: From the Qajars to the Islamic Republic
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By Meir Litvak
June 30, 2021
Nationalism has played an important role in the cultural and intellectual discourse of modernity that emerged in Iran from the late nineteenth century to the present, promoting new formulations of collective identity and advocating a new and more active role for the broad strata of the public in ...