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   Victory Day: Reflecting on the post war years

   Victory Day (9 May) marks Nazi Germany’s surrender to the Soviet Union in 1945.

   We have lots of books that look back on the post-war period, exploring everything from the Khrushchev "Thaw" in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the state of religion after the communist era, the position of rural women in society, the Soviet secret police, the changes in Russian Universities, and the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies. Why not browse our popular Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series here?
    

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   Author Appearance - Geoff Eley at GHIL’s Ethics of Seeing Conference

   Geoff Eley, author of Nazism as Fascism, will be taking part in the German Historical Institute London's upcoming Ethics of Seeing conference.

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   First World War Nursing

   This book brings together a collection of works by scholars who have produced some of the most innovative and influential work on the topic of First World War nursing in the last ten years. They draw on a wide range of hitherto neglected historical sources, including diaries, novels, letters and material culture. The result is a fully-rounded new study of nurses’ unique and compelling perspectives on the unprecedented experiences of the First World War.

   Click here to learn more!

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   Now Available: Thurgood Marshall

   Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991. He was the first African American to hold that position, and was one of the most influential legal actors of his time. Through this concise biography, accompanied by primary sources that present Marshall in his own words, students will learn what Marshall did (and did not do) during his life, why those actions were important, and what effects his efforts had on the larger course of American history.
   
   Please follow this link if you are teaching and would like to receive a complimentary copy to consider for adoption.

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   What is Microhistory?

   "The voices of two authors combine in this important analysis of the evolving character of microhistory. This study guides the reader through the achievements of microhistory to date. It also offers a thought-provoking perspective on the potential for microhistory to continue to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the past." - Graeme Murdock, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

   This unique and detailed analysis provides the first accessible and comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, methodology of microhistory – one of the most significant innovations in historical scholarship to have emerged in the last few decades. Authors Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon and István M. Szijártó survey the significant characteristics shared by large groups of microhistorians, and how these have now established an acknowledged place within any general discussion of the theory and methodology of history as an academic discipline.

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   The Cuban Missile Crisis

   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. In six concise chapters, Alice George introduces the history of Cold War America and contextualizes its political, social, and cultural legacy. This will be a must-read for anyone looking for an in-depth summary of these important events.

   Please follow this link if you are teaching and would like to receive a complimentary copy to consider for adoption.

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   In the News: British Prime Ministers From Balfour to Brown

   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 transformed.

   
   Offering biographical sketches of all twenty individuals who have held the office between 1902 and 2010, including the recently departed Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Ministers provides an essential resource for students of political history and general readers alike. Click here to learn more!

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   Recently Reissued: The Pleasures of the Imagination

   Widely praised on first release, John Brewer's The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century has recently been reissued by Routledge. From the garrets of Grub Street to the stages of Covent Garden, the book charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to the public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens.

   Click here to be transported!

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   Thoughts on a Passing: Thatcher in context

   Was Margaret Thatcher the greatest peacetime Prime Minister of the twentieth century? In his final blog for Routledge History, Eric J. Evans weighs up the evidence …

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    Thoughts on a Passing: the controversies of Thatcherism

    Margaret Thatcher’s most powerful legacy has perhaps come from the economic change she oversaw from 1979 to 1990. Yet she is oftentimes most popularly associated with conflict in the Falklands and strikes in mining communities. What all have in common is the controversy they caused, as Eric J. Evans explains today …

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