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Seminar Studies


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Each book in the Seminar Studies series provides a concise and reliable introduction to a wide range of complex historical events and debates, covering topics in British, European, US and world history from the medieval period to the present day. Written by acknowledged experts and including supporting material such as extracts from historical documents, chronologies, glossaries, guides to key figures and further reading suggestions, Seminar Studies titles are essential reading for students of history.

Almost half a century after its launch, the series continues to introduce students to the problems involved in explaining the past, giving them the opportunity to grapple with historical documents and encouraging them to reach their own conclusions. To submit proposals for new books in the Seminar Studies series, please contact the series editors:

Mark Stoyle: [email protected]                         Gordon Martel: [email protected]
 

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Women and the First World War

Women and the First World War

2nd Edition

By Susan Grayzel
December 20, 2023

In this revised version of a ground-breaking global history of women and the First World War, Susan Grayzel shows the multiple ways in which women faced the enormous challenges the war presented, both the losses as well as the opportunities that the war provided. The First World War was a total war...

The Revolting French, 1787–1889

The Revolting French, 1787–1889

1st Edition

By Pamela Pilbeam
December 12, 2023

This book investigates the impact of revolution on the French from the Revolution of 1789 to its centenary in 1889. It explores specific and linking factors in the main revolts and how historians have differed in their explanations. Revolution has been explained in a multitude of ways from economic...

Capitalism

Capitalism

3rd Edition

By Paul Bowles
September 29, 2023

Exploring the life of the world-shaping system of capitalism and the writings of leading thinkers, this book gives an account of recent developments of capitalism, including the impact of the global Climate Crisis, questions around democracy and capitalism, and the impact of COVID-19. Capitalism ...

Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages

Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages

1st Edition

By Michael Bintley, Kate Franklin
August 14, 2023

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the landscapes of the Middle Ages within and beyond Europe, paying close attention to the relationship between ‘real’ and imagined landscapes and the ways that medieval people made and inhabited their world. Rather than studying 'nature' in the Middle ...

Woodrow Wilson The First World War and Modern Internationalism

Woodrow Wilson: The First World War and Modern Internationalism

1st Edition

By Michael R. Cude
July 28, 2023

This volume contributes to the Routledge Seminar Studies history series by providing a concise narrative overview of the ideas and foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson. It focuses on Wilson’s response to the First World War and his efforts to formulate a new international system, while also outlining...

War Crimes Law, Politics, & Armed Conflict in the Modern World

War Crimes: Law, Politics, & Armed Conflict in the Modern World

1st Edition

By Steven P. Remy
June 29, 2023

This book is a concise and accessible introduction to the problem of war crimes in modern history, emphasizing the development of laws aimed at regulating the conduct of armed conflict developed from the 19th century to the present. Bringing together multiple strands of recent research in history,...

Capitalism and Individualism in America

Capitalism and Individualism in America

1st Edition

By Gavin Benke
December 30, 2022

This book provides a concise and accessible history of the relationship between the individual and capitalism in the United States. The text is devoted to tracking the historical development of important themes, whilst addressing key episodes in the progress of American capitalism within these, ...

Gender in Early Modern England

Gender in Early Modern England

2nd Edition

By Laura Gowing
October 07, 2022

This concise and stimulating book explores the history of gender in England between 1500 and 1700. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to include new material on global connections, masculinity and recent historiography. Amid the upheavals of the Reformation and Civil Wars, gender was ...

The Reformations in Britain, 1520–1603

The Reformations in Britain, 1520–1603

1st Edition

By Anna French
August 23, 2022

This entirely fresh narrative of the "British Reformations" focuses on the emotional as well as the material experience of living through the reformations in Britain during the sixteenth century. The Protestant reformations that took place in England and Scotland during the sixteenth century were, ...

Independence and Nation-Building in Latin America Race and Identity in the Crucible of War

Independence and Nation-Building in Latin America: Race and Identity in the Crucible of War

1st Edition

By Scott Eastman, Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
July 29, 2022

Independence and Nation-Building in Latin America: Race and Identity in the Crucible of War reconceptualizes the history of the break-up of colonial empires in Spanish and Portuguese America. In doing so, the authors critically examine competing interpretations and bring to light the most recent ...

Jewish Women in the Medieval World 500–1500 CE

Jewish Women in the Medieval World: 500–1500 CE

1st Edition

By Sarah Ifft Decker
May 19, 2022

Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 to 1500 CE, a group often ignored in general surveys on both medieval Jewish life and medieval women. The volume blends current scholarship with ...

The American Civil War A Racial Reckoning

The American Civil War: A Racial Reckoning

1st Edition

By Philip D. Dillard
April 28, 2022

The American Civil War: A Racial Reckoning provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the American Civil War, placing race at the center of the war and Reconstruction experience. The book discusses the sectional crisis and the expansion of slavery into new territories as precipitating ...

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