Böcker i Routledge Studies in Modern History-serien

Investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War, post-apartheid Southern Africa. This analysis is suitable for students of modern Africa; the sociology of memory; Third World politics; and post-conflict societies.

During World War II, Churchill engaged in propaganda in the United States to persuade the American public and President Roosevelt that India should not be granted self-government at that time. This title unravels the reasons why this propaganda campaign was deemed necessary by Churchill, revealing the campaign's outcomes for nationalist Indians.

The authors in this book explore the early history of the United Nations in order to increase our understanding of both the achievements and the limits of international support for the independence of colonized peoples.

This edited volume presents new research on Russian-Asian connections by historians, art historians, literary scholars, and linguists. Its interdisciplinary approach to the topic challenges readers to synthesize multiple analytical lenses to better understand the multivalent connections binding Russia and Asia together.

This volume investigates a galaxy of diverse networks and intellectual actors who engaged in a wide political environment, from conservatism to the most radical right, between the World Wars. Looking beyond Fascism, it considers the less-investigated domain of the 'Latin space', encompassing both Southern Europe and Latin America.

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary book examines acts of union and disunion in local, national and international nineteenth century settings, in Britain, Europe and the United States. It explores themes in relation to political leadership, trade unions, emancipation, religion and law.

This original and new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories.

Why does 1968 matter today? The authors of this volume believe that it is a crucial point of reference for current developments, especially the `illiberal turn¿ both in Europe and America.

This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe.

This book brings together specialists from a range of historical fields to analyse the establishment of these commodity chains from the Americas to Europe as well as their cultural implications.

This book investigates the causes and effects of modernisation in rural regions of Britain and Ireland, continental Europe, the Americas and Australasia between 1780 and 1914. Chapters illustrate similarities, differences and connections between the manifestations of agrarian reform and resistance during the long nineteenth century.

This book raises the significant question of how civic nationalisms can be promoted and which dangers are inherent in the process.

The exact legacies of the two Hague Peace Conferences remain unclear. On the one hand, diplomatic and military historians, who cast their gaze to 1914, traditionally dismiss the events of 1899 and 1907 as insignificant footnotes on the path to the First World War. On the other, experts in international law posit that The Hague¿s foremost legacy lies in the manner in which the conferences progressed the law of war and the concept and application of international justice. This volume brings together some of the latest scholarship on the legacies of the Hague peace conferences in a comprehensive volume, drawing together an international team of contributors.

This volume continues the recent trend towards expanding definitions of war experience through considering a range of different landscapes and voices. Not all landscapes were comprised of trenches and barbed wire. Voices, supporting or dissenting, were many and varied. Collectively, they combine to offer fresh insights into the multiplicity of war experience, alternate spaces to the familiar tropes of mud and mayhem.

In moments of crisis Embassies have often been targets of protest and sites of confrontation. It is this aspect of Embassy experience that this collection of essays explores.

This volume provides the first history of the secretive Bilderberg Group, the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the height of the Cold War. It aims to show the importance of informal diplomacy and private transnational elite networks in a fast changing world of Cold War, decolonization, and globalization.

How do former enemies reconcile after civil wars? Do they ever really reconcile in any complete sense? How is political reunification related to longer-term cultural reintegration? Bringing together experts on civil wars around the modern world ¿ the United States, Spain, Rwanda, Colombia, Russia, and more - this volume provides comparative and transnational analysis of the challenges that arise in the aftermath of civil war.