Routledge Studies in Modern European History
About the Book Series
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.
Landscapes of the Western Front: Materiality During the Great War
1st Edition
By Ross Wilson
October 14, 2024
This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the ...
Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany: The "Euthanasia Programs"
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Benedict, Linda Shields
October 14, 2024
This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery, and how these were abrogated during the Nazi era. Nurses and midwives actively killed their patients, many of whom were disabled children and infants and patients with mental (and other) illnesses or intellectual disabilities. The book gives ...
The Red Brigades and the Discourse of Violence: Revolution and Restoration
1st Edition
By Marco Briziarelli
October 14, 2024
This book explores the communicative practices of the Italian radical group Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, or BR), the relationship the group established with the Italian press, and the specific social historical context in which the BR developed both its own self-understanding and its ...
Turkey and the Rescue of European Jews
1st Edition
By I. Izzet Bahar
October 14, 2024
This book exposes Turkish policies concerning European Jews during the Hitler era, focusing on three events: 1. The recruitment of German Jewish scholars by the Turkish government after Hitler came to power, 2. The fate of Jews of Turkish origin in German-controlled France during WWII, 3. The ...
West Germans and the Nazi Legacy
1st Edition
By Caroline Sharples
October 14, 2024
This book constitutes a new history of the complex memory cultures that persisted within post-war West Germany, examining the attitudes of ordinary people to the second wave of Nazi war crimes trials ushered in during the 1960s. It explores responses to the prospect of continuing investigations, ...
The Brandt Commission and the Multinationals: Planetary Perspectives
1st Edition
By Bo Stråth
August 26, 2024
Set against the backdrop of dramatic world order transformations across the 1970s and 1980s, this book examines the competing planetary perspectives of the Brandt Commission and the multinationals, arguing that the missed opportunities of these decades created a path for contemporary political and ...
Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...