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1. Transpacific Revolutionaries

   The Chinese Revolution in Latin America

   By Matthew Rothwell

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   This book shows how Maoism was globalized during the 1949-1976 period, highlighting the agency of both Latin American and Chinese actors. While Maoism has long been known to have been influential in many social movements and guerrilla groups in Latin America, author Matthew Rothwell is the first to...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Churchill, Roosevelt and India

   Propaganda During World War II

   By Auriol Weigold

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   As the United States was drawn into the Second World War, pressure grew from a number of nations for India’s independence. Prime Minister Churchill, in Britain's name, engaged deliberately in propaganda in the United States to persuade the American public and, through it, President Roosevelt that...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America since 1800

   Edited by Bernard Harris, Paul Bridgen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   International in perspective, the essays in this volume are primarily concerned with two facets of the mixed economy of welfare--charity and mutual aid. Emphasizing the close relationship between these two elements and the often blurred boundaries between each of them and commercial provision,...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Foundations of Modernity

   Human Agency and the Imperial State

   By Isa Blumi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   Investigating how a number of modern empires transform over the long 19th century (1789-1914) as a consequence of their struggle for ascendancy in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, Foundations of Modernity: Human Agency and the Imperial State moves the study of the modern empire towards a...

   Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge
5. Genocide and Fascism

   The Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe

   By Aristotle Kallis

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   This book investigates how fascism – as an ideology and political praxis – reconfigured the ideological, political, and moral landscape of interwar Europe, generating an atmosphere of extreme ‘license’ that facilitated the leap into eliminationist violence. It demonstrates how fascist ideology...

   Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
6. Restoration and History

   The Search for a Usable Environmental Past

   Edited by Marcus Hall

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   Once a forest has been destroyed, should one plant a new forest to emulate the old, or else plant designer forests to satisfy our immediate needs? Should we aim to re-create forests, or simply create them? How does the past shed light on our environmental efforts, and how does the present influence...

   Published December 22nd 2009 by Routledge
7. Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa

   The Case of Mozambique, 1975-1994

   By Alice Dinerman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   This groundbreaking study investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War, post-apartheid Southern Africa. Examining the government’s attempts to revise postcolonial Mozambique’s traumatic past with a view to negotiating the present,...

   Published March 12th 2006 by Routledge
8. Isolation

   Places and Practices of Exclusion

   Edited by Alison Bashford, Carolyn Strange

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   This book examines the coercive and legally sanctioned strategies of exclusion and segregation undertaken over the last two centuries in a wide range of contexts. The political and cultural history of this period raises a number of questions about coercive exclusion. The essays in this collection...

   Published May 7th 2003 by Routledge