History

The Transgender Studies Reader 2

Edited by Susan Stryker, Aren Z. Aizura

Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a vibrant field of interdisciplinary scholarship. In 2006, Routledge’s The Transgender Studies Reader brought together the first definitive collection of the field. Since its publication, the field has seen an explosion of new work that...

Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge

World History

Journeys from Past to Present, 2nd Edition

By Candice Goucher, Linda Walton

World History: Journeys from Past to Present uses common themes to present an integrated and comprehensive survey of human history from its origins to the present day. By weaving together thematic and regional perspectives in coherent chronological narratives, Goucher and Walton transform the...

Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge

A New History of Asian America

By Shelley Lee

A New History of Asian America is an updated, synthetic, and interpretive history of Asians in the United States from the late 18th century to the present. The book illustrates for the undergraduate student the distinct aspects of the Asian American experience while presenting the narrative...

To Be Published September 1st 2013 by Routledge

The European World 1500–1800

An Introduction to Early Modern History, 2nd Edition

Edited by Beat Kümin

The European World 1500-1800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It presents early modern Europe not as a mere transition phase, but a dynamic period worth studying in its own right. Written by an experienced team...

To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

John F. Kennedy

By Peter Ling

Series: Routledge Historical Biographies

A lively concise and cutting-edge biography of one of the towering figures of 20th-century history. Of all the US presidents of the post-World War II period, John F. Kennedy is the most clearly idolized. There is a well-documented gulf between the public’s largely positive appraisal of this...

To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

The Cultural History Reader

Edited by Peter McCaffery, Ben Marsden

Series: Routledge Readers in History

The Cultural History Reader is the first volume to collect together the distinctive contributions made by cultural historians across the spectrum of historiographical methods. It offers a unique view into the insights to be gained from examining how cultural factors have shaped people's experiences...

To Be Published October 16th 2013 by Routledge

Revisionist Histories

By Marnie Hughes-Warrington

Revision and revisionism are generally seen as standard parts of historical practice, yet they are underexplored within the growing literature on historiography. In this accessibly written volume, Marnie Hughes-Warrington discusses this paucity of work on revision in history theory and raises...

To Be Published June 26th 2013 by Routledge

The Pleasures of the Imagination

English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

By John Brewer

The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in...

Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge

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

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

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

The Public History Reader

Edited by Hilda Kean, Paul Martin

Series: Routledge Readers in History

Drawing on theory and practice from five continents, The Public History Reader offers clearly written accessible introductions to debates in public history as it places people, such as practitioners, bloggers, archivists, local historians, curators or those working in education, at the heart of...

Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge

Thatcher and Thatcherism

3rd Edition

By Eric J. Evans

Series: The Making of the Contemporary World

This fully revised and updated third edition of Thatcher and Thatcherism examines the origins and impact of ‘Thatcherism’ as a cultural construct and an economic creed from the 1970s to the formation of a coalition government in 2010. Focusing on the career of Margaret Thatcher, Eric J. Evans...

Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge

Imagining the Pagan Past

Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages

By Marion Gibson

Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain’s pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse,...

Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge

Transpacific Revolutionaries

The Chinese Revolution in Latin America

By Matthew Rothwell

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

This book shows how Maoism was globalized during the 1949-1976 period, highlighting the agency of both Latin American and Chinese actors. While Maoism has long been known to have been influential in many social movements and guerrilla groups in Latin America, author Matthew Rothwell is the first to...

Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge

Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Edited by Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo

Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

This project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. Despite the emphasis on individual, identity and difference that past research claims, much of this history still focuses on hierarchical or...

Published December 3rd 2012 by Routledge