Routledge Studies in Modern History
Memory and the Holocaust: Descendants of Survivors and Family History
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, David Clark
August 27, 2026
The importance of recording testimony of Holocaust survivors is well understood. While empowering the survivor and adding another layer of documentation about the cataclysm, it also serves as a bulwark against Holocaust denial. The same holds true for helping survivors pen their memoirs, or when ...
Danuta Mostwin: At Home in Exile between Europe and America (1921–2010)
1st Edition
By Beata Halicka
August 20, 2026
Exploring the life and contributions of Danuta Mostwin, a Polish American social scientist, writer, and chronicler of immigrant experiences, this book traces her journey from wartime Poland through post-war exile in Britain and the United States. It highlights her intellectual achievements, ...
Jewish Refugees and the International Community between the Two World Wars: Beyond the State
1st Edition
By Giuseppe Motta
August 07, 2026
This book utilises extensive documentary research from the archives of the League of Nations and the Joint Distribution Committee to analyse the displacement of the Jewish population in East-Central Europe and how this issue influenced the development of international law and institutions. By ...
Deaf German Missionary Berta Foster (1939-2018) and Deaf Education in West Africa: A Woman in the Background
1st Edition
By Anja Werner
July 31, 2026
In 1960, 21-year-old Berta Zuther left her life in West Berlin behind to join African American missionary Andrew Foster in Ghana, thus embarking on a journey that would span three continents and result in the establishment of schools for the deaf across Africa. Berta and Andrew were both deaf ...
1982, Lebanon and the Road to War: Decision-Making on the Road to War and During It
1st Edition
By Yigal Kipnis
July 20, 2026
On June 6, 1982, the Israeli Defence Forces entered Lebanon for what was billed as a relatively limited operation. In reality, the Lebanon War claimed many lives and undermined public trust in decision-makers. Through newly published archival documents, this book explores the events that led to the...
Building Europe in New York: From the Munich Conference to the European Coal and Steel Community (1938–1952)
1st Edition
By Enrico Ciappi
July 20, 2026
This book reappraises the origins of the European Union through the lens of the private experts who advised Western governments on war and peace throughout the 1940s, particularly the partnership between the so-called 'Father of Europe' Jean Monnet and the US think tank Council on Foreign Relations...
Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century: A Global History
1st Edition
By Lucia Ceci
July 20, 2026
Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century presents a historical reconstruction of the ways in which Catholics have justified the recourse to political violence during the twentieth century, a period marked by major wars, nationalisms, decolonization, ideological clashes, and ...
The Essential Speeches of the Cold War: A Primary Source Collection
1st Edition
By Sean Brennan
July 20, 2026
This book is a primary source collection of 30 speeches of the Cold War from 1917 to 1991, representing a cross section of leaders on all sides of the conflict from North America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. As ideological conflict between superpowers returns to the world, it is more ...
"Dangerous Vagabonds": French Senegal and Resistance to Slave Emancipation
1st Edition
By Robin A. Hardy
July 19, 2026
"Dangerous Vagabonds" examines the problem of illicit slavery in Senegal following the 1848 emancipation law. Where traditional scholarship relates its persistence to the economic and logistic pressures in the region, as well as a strong indigenous tradition of forced labor, this study goes further...
Wealth Accumulation and Entrepreneurship in the Ottoman Empire, 18th to 20th Centuries
1st Edition
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By Maria Christina Chatziioannou, Sophia Laiou
July 19, 2026
This book provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the Ottoman Empire’s economic history, particularly through its exploration of local entrepreneurship, which brings new perspectives to the economic dynamics of the region. This focus adds a valuable dimension to the broader ...
Jewish Communal Advocacy in Post-War Australia
1st Edition
By Suzanne D. Rutland
July 16, 2026
A product of four decades of research, this volume examines the major issues that the Australian Jewish community has addressed since the end of World War II, focusing on the efforts of the community’s peak representative organisation, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. This book moves from...
Institutional Bricolage, Property Rights, and Social Practices in the Colonial World
1st Edition
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By José-Miguel Lana-Berasain
July 08, 2026
Emphasizing the emergence of new institutional realities from the encounter between colonizers and colonized people, this book highlights the capacity of indigenous communities, as well as settlers themselves, to shape and transform laws and legal figures originating in the metropolis. The chapters...