World/International History Books

New and Published Books

1. Transformational Diplomacy after the Cold War

   Britain’s Know How Fund in Post-Communist Europe, 1989-2003

   By Keith Hamilton

   Series: Whitehall Histories

   This book examines the 'Know How Fund', Britain’s bilateral technical assistance programme in post-communist central and eastern Europe, devised in response to the end of the Cold War. The Know How Fund (KHF) was the technical assistance programme which Margaret Thatcher’s government launched in...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. Memory and History

   Understanding Memory as Source and Subject

   Edited by Joan Tumblety

   Series: Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources

   How does the historian approach memory and how do historians use different sources to analyze how history and memory interact and impact on each other? Memory and History explores the different aspects of the study of this field. Taking examples from Europe, Australia, the USA and Japan and...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan

   By Denis Gainty

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai) held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked the arrival of a new iteration of modern Japan, as the Butokukai’s efforts to define and popularise...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
4. Empires and Boundaries

   Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings

   Edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné, Susanne Gehrmann

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings is an exciting collection of original essays exploring the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. With investigations into the colonial past of a diversity of regions...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations

   Politics of Space, Identity, and International Community

   By Vrushali Patil

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis, this book explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 1946-1960. Shrewdly bringing together Sociology, Women’s...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Women and Children First (Routledge Revivals)

   International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870-1945

   Edited by Valerie Fildes, Lara Marks, Hilary Marland

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1992, this book explores the efforts to counteract the high maternal and infant death rates present between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War. It looks at the problem in five different continents and shows the varying approaches used by the governments,...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
7. Routledge History of International Organizations

   From 1815 to the Present Day

   By Bob Reinalda

   This is a definitive and comprehensive history of international organizations from their very beginning at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 up to the present day, and provides the reader with nearly two centuries of world history seen from the perspective of international organizations. It covers the...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Routledge History of Sex and the Body, 1500 to the Present

   Edited by Sarah Toulalan, Kate Fisher

   Series: Routledge Histories

   The Routledge History of Sex and the Body provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of sexuality from 1500 to the present day. The history of sex and the body is an expanding field in which vibrant debate on, for instance, the history of homosexuality, is developing. This book...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
9. Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia

   By Liubov Denisova

   Edited by Irina Mukhina

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap in the literature on rural studies and gender studies of the twentieth century Russia, it is the first to take the story into the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
10. Khrushchev in the Kremlin

    Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953–64

    Edited by Jeremy Smith, Melanie Ilic

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

    This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections, the book examines the full complexity of government, including...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge