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Routledge Studies in Modern European History


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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.

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Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe

Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe

1st Edition

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By Péter Bencsik
May 27, 2024

This book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the history of passports, border surveillance, border crossing, and other elements of European border regimes in the 20th century. Border regime is interpreted widely, including inbound and outbound travels, permanent and ...

The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1

The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Joseph Jung
May 27, 2024

The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course ...

The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 2

The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 2

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Joseph Jung
May 27, 2024

The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course ...

Germany, France and Postwar Democratic Capitalism Expert Rule

Germany, France and Postwar Democratic Capitalism: Expert Rule

1st Edition

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By François Godard
May 23, 2024

This book concentrates on the political economies of Germany and France in the period spanning between the end of World War II and the 1970s, with a subsequent consideration of Italy and Britain as “shadow cases”. European postwar accounts have never reconciled the thwarting of widespread ...

Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I

Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I

1st Edition

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By Gary Edward Girod
April 02, 2024

Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I examines the rapid development and expansion of agencies and governmental power to monitor and control the homefront in Britain and France during World War I. It documents the rapid shift in focus from the feared but ...

Black Abolitionists in Ireland Volume 2

Black Abolitionists in Ireland: Volume 2

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Christine Kinealy
March 29, 2024

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 ...

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

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
March 15, 2024

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. ...

Deciphering the European Investment Bank History, Politics, and Economics

Deciphering the European Investment Bank: History, Politics, and Economics

1st Edition

Edited By Lucia Coppolaro, Helen Kavvadia
January 29, 2024

Deciphering the European Investment Bank: History, Politics and Economics examines the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union’s financial institution and the largest lender and borrower among the International Financial Institutions. Since its establishment in 1958, the EIB has ...

European Integration and Disintegration Essays from the Next Generation of Europe's Thinkers

European Integration and Disintegration: Essays from the Next Generation of Europe's Thinkers

1st Edition

Edited By Nick Cohen, Ayana Dootalieva
January 29, 2024

European integration is an ambitious goal that attempts to reconcile grandiose visions for the future of Europe with complicated national attitudes toward unity. The added complexity of political crises, which have characterized the European project from its outset, makes the success of the ...

Print and the Celtic Languages Publishing and Reading in Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton, 1700–1900

Print and the Celtic Languages: Publishing and Reading in Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton, 1700–1900

1st Edition

By Niall Ó Ciosáin
December 22, 2023

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 ...

A British Education Control Officer in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949 The Letters of Edward Aitken-Davies

A British Education Control Officer in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949: The Letters of Edward Aitken-Davies

1st Edition

By David Phillips
November 30, 2023

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 ...

Rethinking the History of Italian Fascism

Rethinking the History of Italian Fascism

1st Edition

Edited By Giulia Albanese
September 25, 2023

In the last years, the discussion around what is fascism, if this concept can be applied to present forms of politics and if its seeds are still present today, became central in the political debate. This discussion led to a vast reconsideration of the meaning and the experience of fascism in ...

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