Political History Books

New and Published Books

1. The Economic Civil Rights Movement

   African Americans and the Struggle for Economic Power

   Edited by Michael Ezra

   Series: Routledge Studies in African American History

   Economic inequalities have been perhaps the most enduring problem facing African Americans since the civil rights movement, despite the attention they have received from activists. Although the civil rights movement dealt successfully with injustices like disenfranchisement and segregated public...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. Social Histories of Disability and Deformity

   Bodies, Images and Experiences

   Edited by David M. Turner, Kevin Stagg

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Communist Indochina

   By R. B. Smith

   Edited by Beryl Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s. It explores the impact of the Japanese invasion of Indochina in 1940, and the subsequent relationship between the Japanese occupiers and the Vichy French...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Reginald McKenna

   Financier among Statesmen, 1863–1916

   By Martin Farr

   Series: British Politics and Society

   Reginald McKenna has never been the subject of scholarly attention. This was partly due to his own preference for appearing at the periphery of events even when ostensibly at the centre, and the absence of a significant collection of private papers. This new book redresses the neglect of this...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. The Cuban Missile Crisis

   The Threshold of Nuclear War

   By Alice George

   Series: Critical Moments in American History

   For thirteen days in October of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the United States and USSR, as the superpowers argued over the installation of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba. Launched by rash judgment and concluded through circumspect leadership, the Cuban...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. British Prime Ministers From Balfour to Brown

   By Robert Pearce, Graham Goodlad

   The origins of the post of Prime Minister can be traced back to the eighteenth century when Sir Robert Walpole became the monarch’s principal minister. From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early years of the twenty-first, however, both the power and the significance of the role have been...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Political Worlds of Women

   Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain

   By Sarah Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   Traditional analyses of nineteenth-century politics have assigned women a peripheral role. By adopting a broader interpretation of political participation, the author identifies how middle-class women were able to contribute to political affairs in the nineteenth century. Examining the contribution...

   Published March 11th 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. Political Theologies in the Holy Land

    Israeli Messianism and its Critics

    By David Ohana

    Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

    This book examines the role of messianism in Zionist ideology, from the birth of the Zionist movement through to the present. Is shows how messianism is not just a religious or philosophical term but a very tangible political practice and theology which has shaped Israeli identity. The author...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge