European History Books

New and Published Books

1. The History of Bankruptcy

   Economic, Social and Cultural Implications in Early Modern Europe

   Edited by Thomas Max Safley

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   This volume takes up bankruptcy in early modern Europe, when its frequency made it not only an economic problem but a personal tragedy and a social evil. Using legal, business and personal records, the essays in this volume examine the impact of failure on business organizations and practices,...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
2. Germany, France, Russia and Islam (Routledge Revivals)

   By Heinrich Von Treitschke

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Heinrich Von Treitschke was a prolific German historian and political writer during the nineteenth century. In Germany, France, Russia and Islam, first published in 1915, he considers European diplomatic relations from the patriotic perspective of imperial Germany, in particular examining...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Analysing Fascist Discourse

   European Fascism in Talk and Text

   Edited by Ruth Wodak, John E. Richardson

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse

   This book focuses primarily on continuities and discontinuities of fascist politics as manifested in discourses of post-war European countries. Many traumatic pasts in Europe are linked to the experience of fascist and national-socialist regimes in the 20th century and to related colonial and...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

   By Richard Wittman

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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 the key questions as to the impact of war, of revolution, of collapse, the emergence of the Cold War and Russia’s post-Soviet...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

   Edited by Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   This project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. Despite the emphasis on individual, identity and difference that past research claims, much of this history still focuses on hierarchical or...

   Published December 3rd 2012 by Routledge
8. The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World

   Edited by Paula S. Fass

   Series: Routledge Histories

   The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in the West from antiquity to the present day. By broadly incorporating the research in the field of Childhood Studies, the book explores the major advances...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
9. 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...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
10. Privilege in the Soviet Union (Routledge Revivals)

    A Study of Elite Life-Styles under Communism

    By Mervyn Matthews

    First published in 1978, this unique work throws much-needed light upon the exact nature of privilege and elite life-styles in the contemporary Soviet Union, under the Communist regime. Dr Matthews' study places these life-styles in a historical perspective, and characterises, in...

    Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge