Routledge Studies in Modern History
Communities of Resistance and Resilience in the Post-Industrial City: A Transnational Perspective from Lyon and Pittsburgh, 1980–2010
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By Daniel Holland
December 25, 2025
This book is about the grassroots community revitalization movement in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Lyon, France, between 1980 and 2010, an extension of the post-WWII civil rights campaign that is rarely considered. It tells the story of residents' attempts to improve their communities through ...
Networking and Career Strategies in Late Habsburg Monarchy and its Successor States: Paths to Power
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By Alice Velková
December 17, 2025
This comparative study of elite formation and social mobility in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries focuses on Bohemia and Transylvania as representatives of different administrative systems – Cisleithanian and Transleithanian – within the Habsburg Monarchy. Through&...
Britain and Japan in the 1973 Middle East Oil Crisis: Washington’s Silent Partners
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By Erika Miller
November 28, 2025
Miller examines Britain and Japan’s involvement in the Middle East peace process after the October War of 1973 and how it contributed to the resolution of the oil crisis of 1973–74. Using important primary sources from Japan, Britain, and the United States—including recently declassified Japanese ...
The Making of Australia's Gold Coast: A Historical Perspective
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By Alan J. Blackman
November 28, 2025
Blackman draws on original material and the work of many earlier researchers to paint a verbal picture of the evolution of a remarkable city. In an easy-to-read style, he highlights some of the conditions, key events, and individuals that have led to the development of Australia’s Gold Coast. The ...
Western Thoughts on Counterinsurgency: From 17th Century to the Present
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By Federica Saini Fasanotti
November 18, 2025
Focusing on the diverse experiences of modern Western counterinsurgency thinking, this book brings together in one volume the important testimonies on the counterinsurgency doctrine (COIN), its development over the centuries, from the late 17th century to the present. The volume is divided into ...
British Malta, 1798–1835: The Trifling Jewel
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By Andrew T. Zwilling
October 26, 2025
British Malta, 1798–1835 explores the incorporation and early administration of Malta as a British protectorate, and later as a Crown colony. Few connections existed between Great Britain and Malta before 1798, but Napoleon’s Mediterranean ambitions forged a link that remained even after the ...
Railways in the First World War, Volume 1
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By Andrea Giuntini, Henry Jacolin
October 26, 2025
This book, the first in a two-volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organised 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 World...
Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering, Surveying, and Ordering
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By Jörn Happel, Melanie Hussinger, Hajo Raupach
September 28, 2025
This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical, colonial and violent appropriation during the 19th century. The 19th century was the century of world travel. The earth was explored, surveyed, described, illustrated, and categorized. Travelogues became world ...
Borders and Boundaries: Historical Perspectives
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By Tomás Finn, Kieran Hoare
September 18, 2025
This book examines the making and remaking of borders and boundaries primarily relating to Ireland. Borders and Boundaries features selected papers from the 33rd Irish Conference of Historians held by the University of Galway in May 2021 on the theme of ‘Borders and Boundaries’. It covers the ...
Unfiltered Regard for China: French Perspectives from Mao to Xi
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By Peidong Sun
September 10, 2025
Unfiltered Regard for China is a collection of six unique narratives of French academics who, through decades of fieldwork, research, and engagement—some beginning as early as 1964 and continuing to the present—have explored China’s history, politics, and society. These distinct voices illuminate ...
Decolonizing Our Names in the 21st Century: Place, Identity, and Agency
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By Lauren Beck, Grace A. Gomashie
September 09, 2025
This book combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting precolonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names. In a postcolonial context, naming...
The New International Economic Order: Lives and Afterlives
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By Paul Stubbs
September 05, 2025
The New International Economic Order (NIEO) was an attempt, underpinned by the agency of the Global South, to articulate global economic and social rights consequent upon political rights gained through processes of decolonisation. The New International Economic Order: Lives and Afterlives situates...