World/International History Books

New and Published Books

1. Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe

   Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War

   Edited by Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen, Sven Widmalm

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal – in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. 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 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. 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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Human Rights in World History

   By Peter N. Stearns

   Series: Themes in World History

   Defended by a host of passionate advocates and organizations, certain standard human rights have come to represent a quintessential component of global citizenship. There are, however, a number of societies who dissent from this orthodoxy, either in general or on particular issues, on the basis of...

   Published May 1st 2012 by Routledge
8. Twentieth Century Colonialism and China

   Localities, the everyday, and the world

   Edited by Bryna Goodman, David SG Goodman

   Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these colonial arrangements across China’s landscape defies systematic characterization. This...

   Published April 26th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Routledge History of Slavery

   Edited by Gad Heuman, Trevor Burnard

   Series: Routledge Histories

   The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day. Taking stock of the field of Slave Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
10. Politics of Memory

    Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space

    Edited by Ana Lucia Araujo

    Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

    The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia – allowing the populations of African descent,...

    Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge