European History Books

New and Published Books

1. Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe

   Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War

   Edited by Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen, Sven Widmalm

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal – in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Imperial Russia, 1700-1917

   By Boris Mironov

   Edited by Gregory Freeze

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   This is the first full-scale anthropometric history of Imperial Russia (1700-1917). It mobilizes an immense volume of archival material to chart the growth, weight, and other anthropometric indicators of the male and female populations in order to chart how the standard of living in Russia changed...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

   Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere

   By Frances Nethercott

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the Gorbachev and Yel’tsin eras, the issue of individual legal rights and freedoms occupied a central place in the reformist drive to modernize criminal justice. While in tsarist Russia the gains of legal scholars and activists in...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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 May 14th 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. Popularizing National Pasts

   1800 to the Present

   Edited by Stefan Berger, Chris Lorenz, Billie Melman

   Series: Routledge Approaches to History

   Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Totalitarianism and Political Religions Volume III

   Concepts for the Comparison Of Dictatorships - Theory & History of Interpretations

   Edited by Hans Maier

   Series: Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions

   Available for the first time in English language translation, the third volume of Totalitarianism and Political Religions completes the set. It provides a comprehensive overview of key theories and theorists of totalitarianism and of political religions, from Hannah Arendt and Raymond Aron to Leo...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
8. Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944–1950

   By Michael Fleming

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944–1950. It shows that nationalism and nationality policy were fundamentally important in the consolidation of communist rule, acting as a crucial nexus through which different...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. 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
10. The Power of Witnessing

    Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, and the Living Mind

    Edited by Nancy R. Goodman, Marilyn B. Meyers

    Witnessing comes in as many forms as the trauma that gives birth to it. The Holocaust, undeniably one of the greatest traumatic events in recent human history, still resonates into the twenty-first century. The echoes that haunt those who survived continue to reach their children and others who did...

    Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge