Routledge Studies in Modern History
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
Edited
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 ...
Transnationalism and Migration in Global Korea: History, Politics, and Sociology, 1910 to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanne Miyang Cho, Lee M. Roberts, Sang Hwan Seong
April 13, 2025
Contrary to the image of Korea as a largely self-contained country until its economy became global during the 1990s, this book shows that transnationalism has firmly been part of modern Korea’s national experience throughout its existence. The volume portrays Korea’s frequent transnational ...
Women’s Football in Oceania
1st Edition
By Lee McGowan, Kasey Symons, Yoko Kanemasu
January 30, 2025
This book presents the most comprehensive mapping and analysis of women’s football in Oceania and is the first to examine the game’s historical development alongside social, political, and cultural issues, weaving origin stories with players’ day-to-day challenges. Alongside presentation of the ...
Italy and Libya: From Colonialism to a Special Relationship (1911–2021)
1st Edition
Edited
By Luciano Monzali, Paolo Soave
December 19, 2024
This volume proposes a historical analysis of Italian-Libyan relations in contemporary times. After examining the colonialism of liberal Italy, which in 1911 culminated in the military campaign for the conquest of the Libyan regions, it evaluates the impact of fascism in Libya and the attempt to ...
Antisemitism Before the Holocaust: Re-Evaluating Antisemitic Exceptionalism in Germany and the United States, 1880-1945
1st Edition
By Richard E. Frankel
December 18, 2024
This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in both countries from the 1880s to the end of World War II. Author Richard E. Frankel shatters the ...
Beach Soccer Histories
1st Edition
By Lee McGowan, Elizabeth Ellison, Michele Lastella
December 18, 2024
Beach Soccer Histories is the first text to consider the sport as a historical, social and cultural phenomenon, to define its traditions, and present leading research on the development and significance of football played on sand. Following a period of expansive, rapid growth, beach soccer is an ...
Interacting Francoism: Entanglement, Comparison and Transfer between Dictatorships in the 20th Century
1st Edition
Edited
By José M. Faraldo, Gutmaro Gómez Bravo
December 18, 2024
The book presents various investigation into 20th-century European dictatorships, with its focus on Franco`s dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War. Francisco Franco’s dictatorship in Spain (1936/1939-1975/1978) was a modern form of authoritarianism, with a strong totalitarian period, like many ...
The Saga of Edmund Burke: From His Age to Ours
1st Edition
By Mark Hulliung
December 18, 2024
This book offers an examination of responses to Edmund Burke from the last decades of the eighteenth century to the present day, ending with the question whether there is still a role for him to play in post-Thatcher England. It includes a chapter asking the same question about America. The sharp ...
Tourism in Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
1st Edition
By Martino Lorenzo Fagnani, Luciano Maffi
December 18, 2024
This book analyzes the roots of one of the main human activities that can be developed in natural and agricultural ecosystems: tourism. Attention to natural and agricultural ecosystems and their conservation has intensified in recent decades, responding to increasing social sensitivity to the ...
Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World
1st Edition
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By Eveline Bouwers
November 28, 2024
This book analyzes violence involving Catholics in the nineteenth-century world – revealing the motives for violence, showing the link between religious and secular grievances, and illuminating Catholic pluralism. Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World is the first study to ...