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Routledge has an illustrious history in research and reference publishing. You can explore this area of the site to learn more about our featured research, reference, monographs, handbooks and major works in History. In addition, you can visit one of following areas for broad representation of our reference publishing program:

Recent Research & Reference Articles

  1. Essential Reading - History Reading Lists

    Visit our History Reading Lists page to browse essential books and discover journal articles for your area of study.

    Disciplines covered include:

    • African History
    • Medieval and Early Modern European History
    • History and Theory
    • Modern European History
    • Gender, Identity Religion, Race

    and much more.

  2. Featured Research Book: Foundations of Modernity

    Foundations of Modernity: Human Agency and the Imperial State, by Isa Blumi, is a groundbreaking study that introduces a new apporoach to the study of modern state power. Examining events along the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, and drawing attention to the agency of long-ignored groups like pirates, smugglers, refugees, and the rural poor, this book challenges the idea that the modernity was solely created by Europe.

  3. Ref Catalog Jacket 2012

    Hot off the press: the new 2012 Reference Catalog is here

    Can you hear the drum roll? The 2012 Reference Catalog has arrived and can be downloaded today. Simple. You can learn about all our 2011 and 2012 Library Reference titles, both in print and eBooks, across the humanities and social sciences. And we have packed the Catalog full of new interactive features. Read on for the full low down.

  4. New Series: Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas

    The first title in the new Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas series, The Memory of the Argentina Disappearances examines the history of the Nunca Más report issued by Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP).

  5. Featured Research Book: Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America

    Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spain’s eighteenth century, this book features original essays about how the Enlightenment affected the Hispanic world.

  6. Featured Book: Lotteries in Colonial America

    Lotteries have been around for hundreds of years, and they played an important part in the economy of the American colonies.  Part of the Studies in American Popular History and Culture series, Lotteries in Colonial America describes the role of lotteries in government, the consumer revolution, and the notion of fortune for colonists. . . Read more

  7. eFocus on Postcolonialism - eBook Collection for Libraries

    Postcolonialism consists of a wide range of responses to colonialism and its ongoing legacies and is one of the most important cultural and theoretical developments of recent decades. This invaluable resource offers a range of perspectives on postcolonialism from across the humanities and social sciences.

  8. Featured Book: Irish Identities in Victorian Britain

    Get into the spirit of St. Patrick's Day with Irish Identities in Victorian Britain.  Edited by Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley, this book analyzes the complexities surrounding the self-identity of the Irish in Victorian Britain.

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    Featured Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    What's the real story of the Jim Crow laws?  Find out in Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow’s Teachers, the newest book in the Studies in African American History and Culture Series. View all of the books in this series.

  10. eFocus on Medieval Studies - eBook Collection for Libraries

    Covering a period stretching from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance, this collection covers all the key events of the Middle Ages, such as the Crusades and The Black Death, and some of the most important themes of the period, such as sexuality, heresy, persecution, urbanisation, religion, science and technology.

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