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.
Print and the Celtic Languages: Publishing and Reading in Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton, 1700–1900
1st Edition
By Niall Ó Ciosáin
September 29, 2025
This book is a study of the print cultures of the four principal Celtic languages — Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton — in the crucial period between 1700 and 1900. Over the past four centuries, the Celtic languages of northwest Europe have followed contrasting paths of maintenance and decline. This ...
Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the “Third Reich,” the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941–1963
1st Edition
By Stefanie Coché
September 29, 2025
The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany’s age of extremes. The book shows that - even during the Nazi killing of the sick - relatives played an even more important role in most admissions than doctors and the authorities. ...
Political Outbreaks against the Liberal Order (1917-1939): Narratives, Practices and Celebrations
1st Edition
Edited
By Giorgia Priorelli, Annarita Gori, Maximiliano Fuentes Codera
September 09, 2025
This book offers a fresh perspective on right-wing and left-wing revolutions, as well as political uprisings against the liberal order in interwar Europe, focusing on how they were politically used in the public sphere and exploring how these events were narrated and visually represented to justify...
Black Abolitionists in Ireland: Volume 2
1st Edition
By Christine Kinealy
July 30, 2025
Building on the narratives explored in volume one, this publication recovers the story of a further seven Black visitors to Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War. This volume examines each of these seven activists and artists, and how their unique and diverse talents contributed ...
A British Education Control Officer in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949: The Letters of Edward Aitken-Davies
1st Edition
By David Phillips
June 27, 2025
Edward Aitken-Davies (1899-1981) served as an Education Control Officer in the British Zone of occupied Germany from the early summer of 1945 until December 1949. He thus experienced the implementation of policy in the Zone from the very beginnings of the occupation until the founding of the ...
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 ...
The Belgian Revolt of 1830
1st Edition
By Nick Ridley
May 23, 2025
This book examines and analyses the factors essential for the success of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, in which the southern provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands successfully broke away in a nationalist revolt and became the independent Kingdom of Belgium. The Belgian Revolution of ...
The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory
1st Edition
Edited
By Ingrid de Zwarte, Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco
May 15, 2025
This is the first book to bring together groundbreaking scholarship focusing on the various ways in which famines result from political decision-making, and how the threat, occurrence, relief, or memory of famine is instrumentalized as a political and military tool. Contributions to this volume ...
“Nazi Fantasy”: Vilém Flusser and History as Site of Experiment
1st Edition
By Amos Morris-Reich
March 27, 2025
This book brings together Vilém Flusser and intellectual Jewish history of the second half of the twentieth century. Flusser is viewed today by many scholars as the most original theoretician of media and photography in the second half of the twentieth century, and yet this is the first monograph ...
Britain and Ireland from the Treaty to the Troubles: Independence and Interdependence, c. 1921-1973
1st Edition
By Richard Carr
March 07, 2025
Using extensive and fresh archival material, this book places the relationship between the United Kingdom and Ireland after 1921 in a new light, encouraging us to rethink the dominant narrative of conflict and strife. While the work does not shy away from the clear points of dispute, it contends ...
A Modern History of Andorra: Autonomy in the Pyrenean Borderlands
1st Edition
By Martyn Lyons
February 14, 2025
This book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe's micro-states nestled between France and Spain. Despite its medieval institutional framework, Andorra endured into the late 20th century without an army, police, currency, or customs barriers. The book uncovers how Andorra ...
The French-German Dynamic in an Age of Conflict, 1925–1963: Enemies, Collaborators, Friends
1st Edition
By Elana Passman
February 04, 2025
This book investigates the radical transformation of the relationship between Germany and France, neighbors whose border constituted one of the deepest fault lines of European history. For generations, the French and the Germans believed they were “eternal enemies,” and this myth of primordial ...