European History Books

New and Published Books

1. The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the Culture of Europe

   Edited by Peter I. Barta

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   The end of communism in Europe has tended to be discussed mainly in the context of political science and history. This book, in contrast, assesses the cultural consequences for Europe of the disappearance of the Soviet bloc. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book examines the new...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film

   Cinema Year Zero

   By Giuliana Minghelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. While largely a silent narrative, neorealism’s complex visual processing of two decades of Fascism remains the greatest cultural...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Memorylands

   Heritage and Identity in Europe Today

   By Sharon Macdonald

   Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
4. Female Agency in the Urban Economy

   Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830

   Edited by Deborah Simonton, Anne Montenach

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. German Orientalism

   The Study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945

   By Ursula Wokoeck

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   During the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, German universities were at the forefront of scholarship in Oriental studies. Drawing upon a comprehensive survey of thousands of German publications on the Middle East from this period, this book presents a detailed history of the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe

   Performance, Geography, Privacy

   Edited by Angela Vanhaelen, Joseph P. Ward

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings of diverse individuals that could coalesce through...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Communist Quest for National Legitimacy in Europe, 1918-1989

   Edited by Martin Mevius

   Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities

   There are two popular myths concerning the relationship between communism and nationalism. The first is that nationalism and communism are wholly antagonistic and mutually exclusive. The second is the assertion that in communist Eastern Europe nationalism was oppressed before 1989, to emerge...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe

   By Béla Tomka

   A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe offers a systematic overview on major aspects of social life, including population, family and households, social inequalities and mobility, the welfare state, work, consumption and leisure, social cleavages in politics, urbanization as well as education...

   Published March 12th 2013 by Routledge
10. Case Studies on Modern European Economy

    Entrepreneurship, Inventions, and Institutions

    By Ivan Berend

    The last two centuries have been the scene of dramatic change throughout Europe. And one of the main causes of these tremendous and spectacular changes was the economy. These transformations were achieved by people: scientists and political thinkers, inventors and entrepreneurs, educators, skilled...

    Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge