World/International History Books

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41. The Northwest Caucasus

    Past, present, future

    By Walter Richmond

    Series: Central Asian Studies

    This is the first book to present a comprehensive history of the Northwest Caucasus. Based on extensive research, it describes the peoples of the Northwest Caucasus, which have a significantly different ethnic makeup and history than the Northeast (Chechnya and Daghestan). The book examines their...

    Published August 3rd 2011 by Routledge
42. Gender, Migration, and the Public Sphere, 1850–2005

    Edited by Marlou Schrover, Eileen Yeo

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

    The decision to emigrate has historically held differing promises and costs for women and for men. Exploring theories of difference in labor market participation, network formation and the immigrant organising process, on belonging and diaspora, and a theory of ‘vulnerability,’ A Global History of...

    Published June 30th 2011 by Routledge
43. A Political Chronology of the World

    Series: Political Chronology of the World series

    A Political Chronology of the World is a major new publication which gives an impartial record of the political, geographical and economic events that have helped to shape world history. Although the book includes greater coverage of more recent events—particularly in countries with a recent...

    Published June 26th 2011 by Routledge
44. The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917-1932

    By Matthias Neumann

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

    The study of Soviet youth has long lagged behind the comprehensive research conducted on Western European youth culture. In an era that saw the emergence of youth movements of all sorts across Europe, the Soviet Komsomol was the first state-sponsored youth organization, in the first communist...

    Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge
45. Teaching Global History

    A Social Studies Approach

    By Alan J. Singer

    Teaching Global History challenges prospective and beginning social studies teachers to formulate their own views about what is important to know in global history and why. It explains how to organize the curriculum around broad social studies concepts and themes and student questions about...

    Published May 19th 2011 by Routledge
46. Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s

    From Isolation to Integration

    Edited by Makoto Iokibe, Caroline Rose, Junko Tomaru, John Weste

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

    This book provides a detailed examination of Japan's diplomatic relations in the 1950s, an important decade in international affairs when new structures and systems emerged, and when Japan established patterns in its international relationships which continue today. It examines the process of...

    Published May 16th 2011 by Routledge
47. Imperial Tombs in Tang China, 618-907

    The Politics of Paradise

    By Tonia Eckfeld

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia

    Intellectually and visually stimulating, this important landmark book looks at the religious, political, social and artistic significance of the Imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). It traces the evolutionary development of the most elaborately beautiful imperial tombs to examine...

    Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
48. Japanese-Russian Relations, 1907–2007

    By Joseph Ferguson

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

    This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japanese-Russian relations from the end of the Russo-Japanese War until the present. Based on extensive original research in both Japanese and Russian sources, it traces the development of relations from the tumultuous pre-war period, through the Second...

    Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
49. Civilization and Empire

    China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society

    By Shogo Suzuki

    Series: New International Relations

    This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International...

    Published April 29th 2011 by Routledge
50. Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia

    By Brian P. Bennett

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    Church Slavonic, one of the world's historic sacred languages, has experienced a revival in post-Soviet Russia. Blending religious studies and sociolinguistics, this is the first book devoted to Church Slavonic in the contemporary period. It is not a narrow study in linguistics, but uses Slavonic...

    Published April 27th 2011 by Routledge