Modern History 1750-1945 Books

New and Published Books

1. Maritime Slavery

   Edited by Philip Morgan

   Think of maritime slavery, and the notorious Middle Passage – the unprecedented, forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic – readily comes to mind. This so-called ‘middle leg’ – from Africa to the Americas – of a supposed trading triangle linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Nazism in Syria and Lebanon

   The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933–1945

   By Götz Nordbruch

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards the Nazi German regime. For many contemporary observers in Beirut and Damascus, Nazism not only posed a risk to Europe, but threatened to...

   Published May 14th 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. 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
5. Singapore in the Global System

   Relationship, Structure and Change

   By Peter Preston

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   This book tracks the phases of Singapore’s economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links today will be the key to the country’s future....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Pre-Communist Indochina

   By R.B. Smith

   Edited by Beryl Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book explores the history of pre-communist Indochina, from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. It examines the early state of Vietnam, comparing and contrasting its political and social systems, with both those of neighbouring states such as Thailand and those prevalent at the time in Europe....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. The Fragility of Law

   Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945

   By David Fraser

   The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property. David Fraser...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. Islands and International Politics in the Persian Gulf

   The Abu Musa and Tunbs in Strategic Context

   By Kourosh Ahmadi

   Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

   The position of the Persian Gulf as the main highway between East and West has long given this region special significance both within the Middle East and in global affairs more generally. This book examines the history of international relations in the Gulf since the 1820s as great powers such as...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789–1919

    By Amy Dunham Strand

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national identity and national citizenship elicited by...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge