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1. Constructing a German Diaspora

   The 'Greater German Empire,' 1871-1918

   By Stefan Manz

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   German unification in 1871 had a significant impact on those Germans who found themselves living outside, or migrating across, the borders of the newly founded Empire. Migrants’ redefined their relationship with their country of origin and were increasingly represented as outposts of ‘Germanness’...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office

   By Hans-Adolph Jacobsen, Arthur L. Smith Jr.

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office explores the struggle between entrenched diplomats in the Foreign Office and Party loyalists, who presumed that with the assumption of power in 1933 total state control was theirs....

   Published September 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Russian Revolution of 1905

   Centenary Perspectives

   Edited by Anthony J. Heywood, Jonathan D. Smele

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   2005 marks the centenary of Russia’s ‘first revolution’ - an unplanned, spontaneous rejection of Tsarist rule that was a response to the ‘Bloody Sunday’ massacre of 9th January 1905. A wave of strikes, urban uprisings, peasant revolts, national revolutions and mutinies swept across the Russian...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory

   Edited by Volker Langbehn

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   There is no overarching master narrative in understanding the history of German colonialism, and over the past decade, the study of Germany’s colonial past has experienced a dramatic transformation in its scope of inquiry. Influenced by new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. Alan S. Milward and a Century of European Change

   Edited by Fernando Guirao, Frances Lynch, Sigfrido M. Ramirez Perez

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   The main purpose of the book is to introduce the work of Alan S. Milward and to acknowledge the full magnitude of his scientific contribution to contemporary British and European history. The book is a collection of essays which provide a better understanding of Alan Milward’s extensive...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
6. War, Agriculture, and Food

   Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s

   Edited by Paul Brassley, Yves Segers, Leen Van Molle

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   Between the 1930s and the 1950s rural life in Europe underwent profound changes, partly as a result of the Second World War, and partly as a result of changes which had been in progress over many years. This book examines a range of European countries, from Scandinavia to Spain and Ireland to...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. West Germans and the Nazi Legacy

   By Caroline Sharples

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   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,...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. Landscapes of the Western Front

   Materiality During the Great War

   By Ross Wilson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   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...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
9. Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy

   From Unification to Fascism

   By Axel Körner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   With chapters on theatre and opera, architecture and urban planning, the medieval revival and the rediscovery of the Etruscan and Roman past, The Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy analyzes Italians' changing relationship to their new nation state and the monarchy, the conflicts between the...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. German Colonialism and National Identity

    Edited by Michael Perraudin, Juergen Zimmerer

    Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

    German colonialism is a thriving field of study. From North America to Japan, within Germany, Austria and Switzerland, scholars are increasingly applying post-colonial questions and methods to the study of Germany and its culture. However, no introduction on this emerging field of study has...

    Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge