Routledge Studies in Modern History
"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
Edited
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...
Eight Armies on the Gallipoli Peninsula
1st Edition
Edited
By Mesut Uyar
June 23, 2026
The Gallipoli campaign of the First World War seems to have been exhaustively studied by shelves of books and thousands of articles. This edited volume challenges this perception of completion, revealing extensive uncovered ground, misunderstandings and even complete neglect in the historiography. ...
Subcultures as Active Agents of the Post-Communist Transition in Eastern Europe: The Bulgarian Case
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By Alexander Karakachanov
June 22, 2026
This edited volume explores the transformation of post-communist societies following the Bulgarian case in the period 1990s–2010s. By identifying, analysing, and typologizing the subcultural groups that became active agents of social change in Eastern Europe, the book brings forth an integrative ...
The Psychology of the Armenian Genocide
1st Edition
By George Green
June 22, 2026
This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics, and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate group’s historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries. A unique approach, an analysis of archival documents, including minutes of Turkish ...
Women Fighting Apartheid: Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) and the Black Sash, 1952–1962
1st Edition
By Monica G. Fernandes
June 07, 2026
Drawing on new interviews and previously underused archival material, this book explores women’s anti-apartheid activism in South Africa and within broader transnational networks from 1952 to 1962 through a comparison of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) and the Black Sash. Despite ...
Appearance and Identity Crisis in Modern Indian History: The Third Design (1857 A.D. – 2014 A.D.)
1st Edition
By Jeevan Jyoti Chakarawarti
May 22, 2026
Chakarawarti explores the history of Indian eunuchs from the Mughal empire’s fall following the mutiny of 1857 A.D. to the Supreme Court of India’s historic ruling in 2014 A.D. This book examines the social, political, economic, and religious aspects of Indian eunuchs’ lives, providing a true ...
The Political History of British Aviation 1909–1949: Technology in a Liberal Democracy
1st Edition
By Peter Ewer
May 22, 2026
Ewer examines how British politics shaped the development of aviation in the first half of the twentieth century. He challenges narratives of simple technological failure or national decline, showing instead that aviation outcomes were shaped by political institutions, policy traditions and ...
The Iranian Oil Crisis and Mossadegh in the Cold War, 1949-1953
1st Edition
By Jamil Hasanli
May 05, 2026
In the early 1950s, Iranian oil became a firebomb of the Cold War in the Middle East, creating one of the era's two major hot spots alongside Korea.This book examines the dramatic events surrounding Mohammad Mossadegh whose government unanimously passed legislation nationalizing the Iranian oil ...
Railways in the First World War, Volume 2
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By Andrea Giuntini, Henry Jacolin
April 17, 2026
This book, the second in a two- volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organized by the International Railway History Association (IRHA), examines the relationship between the railways and the First World War from a global theoretical, methodological and geographical perspective. Although the...