Routledge Studies in Modern History
Chinese Revolution in Practice: From Movement to the State
1st Edition
By Guo Wu
May 27, 2025
This book employs multiple case studies to explore how the Chinese communist revolution began as an ideology-oriented intellectual movement aimed at improving society before China’s transformation into a state that suppresses dissenting voices by outsourcing its power of coercion and incarceration....
Sixty Years of Service in Africa: The U.S. Peace Corps in Cameroon
1st Edition
By Julius A. Amin
May 27, 2025
Based on previously unused primary sources obtained from both sides of the Atlantic, this study provides a more fundamental, consistent, and balanced source-based assessment of the role of the U.S. Peace Corps across its entire existence in Africa. The study sheds light on a new and intriguing ...
The Creation of Kazakh National Identity: The Relationship with Russia, 1900–2015
1st Edition
By Dmitry V. Shlapentokh
May 27, 2025
This monograph utilizes three theoretical models to explain Kazakhstan’s emergence as an independent state and its changing relationships with the broader world, particularly Russia, since the beginning of the twentieth century. The book first explores the construction of Kazakh national identity ...
Science, Religion and Nationalism: Local Perceptions and Global Historiographies
1st Edition
Edited
By Jaume Navarro, Kostas Tampakis
May 26, 2025
“Science” and “Religion” have been two major elements in the building of modern nation-states. While contemporary historiography of science has studied the interactions between nation building and the construction of modern scientific and technological institutions, “science-and-religion” is still ...
Class War or Race War: The Inner Fronts of Soviet Society during and after the Second World War
1st Edition
By Tamás Kende
May 06, 2025
Class War or Race War is more than an anti-thesis of the master narrative regarding the Soviet state antisemitism. Kende not only refutes the originally anti-Communist myth of the systemic nature of (state) socialism, but tries to re-, and deconstruct, the origins of this myth. With intensive use ...
Carlo di Rudio and the Age of Revolution
1st Edition
By Nick Ridley
May 05, 2025
From a Europe convulsed by revolutions to an assassination plot and international secret diplomacy, to conflict between major European powers which changed the strategic power balance, to the American Civil War, and finally, to Custer’s Last Stand, this tumultuous vista is told through the life and...
Longing for the Future: Mal D’Afrique and Afro-Optimism in Perspectives on Somalia
1st Edition
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By Rosetta G. Caponetto, Giusy Di Filippo, Martina Di Florio
May 05, 2025
This volume focuses on a longing projected mostly toward the past (mal d’Afrique) alongside a longing toward the future (afro-optimism), and the different manifestations, shifting meanings, and potential points of contact of these two stances. The volume introduces a new perspective into the ...
Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights: Historical Experiences from the 1870s to the 1970s
1st Edition
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By Beate Althammer
April 14, 2025
The tensions between European conceptions of the welfare state and transnational migration have caused heated political, public, and academic debates over the last decades. Historiography, however, has not yet explored in depth how European societies struggled with this dilemma-filled relationship ...
Cities, Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States, 1905–2022 (Volume 1)
1st Edition
By Josef W. Konvitz
April 13, 2025
This comparative, transatlantic two-volume work covers nearly 120 years of the history of the rights, integration, and security of the Jewish people in both the United States and France, the countries with the largest and third-largest Jewish populations. Religious freedom and secularism have ...
Cities, Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States, 1905–2022 (Volume 2)
1st Edition
By Josef W. Konvitz
April 13, 2025
This comparative, transatlantic two-volume work covers nearly 120 years of the history of the rights, integration, and security of the Jewish people in both the United States and France, the countries with the largest and third-largest Jewish populations. Religious freedom and secularism have ...
India in the World: 1500 to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Rajeshwari Dutt, Nico Slate
April 13, 2025
If we look back at world history in the past five hundred years, it is evident that Indian ideas, peoples, and goods helped drive world connections. From the quest to reach the Indies that drove Iberian rulers to fund costly expeditions that ultimately connected the Old World with the Americas to ...
The Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919: A Political and Cultural Approach from a COVID World
1st Edition
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By Maximiliano Fuentes Codera
April 13, 2025
Within the framework of a global political and sanitarian crisis that broke out in March 2020, this book proposes a new contemporary look at the great pandemic of the 20th century, the Spanish flu of 1918-1919. Based on its impact in Spain, the book offers a comparative and transatlantic ...