Routledge Studies in Modern European History
About the Book Series
This path-breaking series examines particular events, movements and people involved in the making of contemporary Europe. Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has presented diverse maps of division and union, conflict, peace and revolution across shifting national and racial boundaries. The volumes in this series aim to re-frame the history of the continent and its place in the world as the millennium.
The Republic of Women: Civic Feminism and the Making of Equality in Italy
1st Edition
By Claudia Rotondi
January 15, 2027
This intellectual history uncovers the journey of twenty-one women who stepped into the Italian Constituent Assembly of 1946 and how these women coming from diverse political backgrounds united to embed principles of gender equality and political representation into Italy's post-war Constitution, ...
Representing Lesbian Lives in Hungary: History, Culture, and Psy Sciences
1st Edition
By Anna Borgos
December 02, 2026
This book is a collection of articles on the history of LBT women in Hungary in the 20th and 21st century, in a social, cultural and psychological context. The chapters present individual authors and images in the mirror of psychiatry in the pre-war years and state-socialist times, lesbian’s ...
Slovenian Memory of Italian Fascist Concentration Camps
1st Edition
By Oto Luthar, Marta Verginella, Urška Strle
October 30, 2026
Apart from presenting the advantages of oral history and memory studies for understanding the policy concerning the Italian confinement and internment regime during the Second World War, this book provides a unique forensic reconstruction of the survivors’ experience of the camps, introducing us to...
The Greek War of Independence: Comparative and Transhistorical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Panagiotis Roilos
October 21, 2026
The Greek War of Independence brings together papers from an international conference on the Greek Revolution of 1821, held at Harvard University and the Fletcher School at Tufts University in September 2021. The Greek Revolution marked a pivotal moment in European history: it catalyzed the birth ...
The Euro-Russian Entente: Brussels and Moscow between Convergence and Divergence (1985–1999)
1st Edition
Edited
By Elena Dundovich, Simone Paoli
October 05, 2026
This book explores the origins, evolution, and limits of the “Euro-Russian entente” in the crucial transition period from perestroika to the consolidation of the Russian Federation, and from the European Single Market project to the emergence of the European Union. Drawing on extensive archival ...
Beyond Wars and Cartels: Competition Law and the Reconstruction of Europe
1st Edition
By Thomas F. Remington
September 22, 2026
This book argues that the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 solved the historic French-German conflict over control of the coal deposits of the Ruhr valley. The product of a political bargain among the United States, France, and Germany, the treaty of Paris introduced radical new rules into...
The Belgian Revolt of 1830
1st Edition
By Nick Ridley
August 27, 2026
This book examines and analyses the factors essential for the success of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, in which the southern provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands successfully broke away in a nationalist revolt and became the independent Kingdom of Belgium. The Belgian Revolution of ...
The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory
1st Edition
Edited
By Ingrid de Zwarte, Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco
August 27, 2026
This is the first book to bring together groundbreaking scholarship focusing on the various ways in which famines result from political decision-making, and how the threat, occurrence, relief, or memory of famine is instrumentalized as a political and military tool. Contributions to this volume ...
History of the Communist Party of Cyprus, 1923–1944: The Dawn of the Cypriot Communist Movement
1st Edition
By Spyros Sakellaropoulos, Alexis Alecou
August 10, 2026
This book traces the historical trajectory of the Communist Party of Cyprus (CPC) from its first public appearance through the newspaper Pyrsos in November 1923 to its informal dissolution at the 5th Congress in November 1944. Drawing on extensive primary sources – many previously inaccessible or ...
The Cult of the Supreme Being and the Pursuit of a Republic of Virtue in the French Revolution
1st Edition
By John Whitworth
August 05, 2026
The Cult of the Supreme Being and the Pursuit of a Republic of Virtue in the French Revolution analyses one of several concentric themes in the context of the rapidly evolving political situation of 1793-1794, as well as dechristianisation, the décadaire cult, and the Cult of Reason. In virtual ...
The Politics, Memory, and Commemoration of the Postwar Camps for Germans in Poland (1945-1949): Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence
1st Edition
By Piotr Madajczyk, Magdalena Lemańczyk, Paweł Popielinski
July 28, 2026
This book offers the first systematic comparative analysis of memory politics concerning post-war camps in Poland for the German population (and those classified as German). It examines how this difficult past has been framed, instrumentalised, and negotiated in Poland and Germany across changing ...
British Forces in Germany: A Transnational History of Soldiers, Families, and German Communities, 1945–2019
1st Edition
By Bettina Blum
July 27, 2026
From the end of World War II in 1945 until the drawdown in 2019, about two million British military personnel and their families were stationed in northwestern Germany. This book explores the social, cultural and political impact of this presence on both the military and the host communities. ...