Forthcoming European History Books

Forthcoming Books

1. A History of the Church in the Middle Ages

   2nd Edition

   By F Donald Logan

   "Conceptually well organized, stylistically clear, intellectually thoughtful, and pedagogically useful." - Thomas Head, Speculum "For its humane and learned approach to its enormous canvas, as well as for the cogency with which it penetrates at speed to the essentials of a vanished historical...

   To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Routledge History of the Holocaust

   Edited by Jonathan C. Friedman

   Series: Routledge Histories

   The genocide of Jewish and non-Jewish civilians perpetrated by the German regime during World War Two continues to confront scholars with elusive questions even after nearly seventy years and hundreds of studies. This multi-contributory work is a landmark publication that sees experts renowned in...

   To Be Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
3. European Civil War Films

   Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia

   By Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This book examines the way in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in...

   To Be Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Republican Tradition in Europe (Routledge Revivals)

   By H. A. L. Fisher

   First published in 1911, this pioneering and ambitious work provides a history of the evolution of republican thought and practice in Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the twentieth century. Based a series of lectures delivered by the author at Lowell Institute in 1910,...

   To Be Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Woman of the Eighteenth Century

   Her Life, from Birth to Death, Her Love and Her Philosophy in the Worlds of Salon, Shop and Street

   By Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   This translation of the French Femme au dix-huitiéme siécle from 1862, first published in English in 1928, traces the life of the Eighteenth Century woman in an historical account. Through discussion of evidence from paintings and memoirs, the book draws an intimate lifelike account of what lay...

   To Be Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. Hitler

   By Michael Lynch

   Series: Routledge Historical Biographies

   Adolf Hitler is the most notorious political figure of the twentieth century. The story of his life, how he became a dictator, and how he managed to convince so many to follow his cause is a subject of perennial fascination. Balancing narrative and analysis, this biography employs a chronological...

   To Be Published September 23rd 2012 by Routledge
7. Americans Experience Russia

   Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present

   Edited by Choi Chatterjee, Beth Holmgren

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists envisioned, experienced, and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. While many histories of diplomatic, economic, and intellectual connections between the United States and the Soviet Union can...

   To Be Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
8. State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey

   Orthodox and Muslims, 1830-1945

   Edited by Benjamin C. Fortna, Stefanos Katsikas, Dimitris Kamouzis, Paraskevas Konortas

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   Tracing the emergence of minorities and their institutions from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, this book provides a comparative study of government policies and ideologies of two states towards minority populations living within their borders. Making extensive use...

   To Be Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge
9. Analysing Fascist Discourse

   European Fascism in Talk and Text

   Edited by Ruth Wodak, John E. Richardson

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse

   For the past 80 years, there has been variability and disagreement about how to classify or define fascism. Moreover, these disagreements have themselves shifted, so the arguments of the 1930s were different to those of the 1960s, different again to the debates now, and shaped in part by the...

   To Be Published October 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Russia’s International Relations in the Twentieth Century

    By Alastair Kocho-Williams

    Russia has long been a major player in the international relations arena, but only by examining the whole century can Russian foreign policy be properly understood, and key questions as to the impact of war, of revolution, of collapse, the emergence of the Cold War and Russia’s post-Soviet...

    To Be Published October 29th 2012 by Routledge