First published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology, cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped around four major themes: The theoretical imagination Ethnic diversity and the politics of…
Paperback – 2020-05-31
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Routledge Library Editions: British Sociological Association
This book delves into the life and work of President Donald Trump, who is arguably the most famous and controversial person in the world today. While his administration has received enormous attention, few have studied the spatial dimensions of his policies. Political Landscapes of Donald Trump…
Paperback – 2020-05-30
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This book assesses the quality of Czech democracy relative to both its postcommunist peers and older EU members. Motivated by the authoritarian tendencies and illiberal outcomes in the post-communist region, this book explores the extent to which the Czech Republic is genuinely an outlier within…
Hardback – 2020-04-29
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This monograph focuses on the challenges which interwar regimes faced and how they coped with them in the aftermath of World War I, focusing especially on the failure to establish and stabilize democratic regimes, as well as on the fate of ethnic and religious minorities. Topics explored include…
Paperback – 2020-04-22
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History
This monograph addresses mobility and migrations as contributing phenomena in shaping contemporary Europe after 1945, in connection with decolonisation and the creation of the European Community. The disappearing of the colonial empires caused a large movement of people (former colonizers as well…
Hardback – 2020-04-08
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History
This volume investigates a galaxy of diverse networks and intellectual actors who engaged in a wide political environment, from conservatism to the most radical right, between the World Wars. Looking beyond simply fascism, it considers the less-investigated domain of the "Latin space", which is…
Hardback – 2020-03-25
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Routledge Studies in Modern History
Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century challenges widespread conceptions of Central and Eastern European countries as merely countries of origin. It sheds light on their experience of immigration and the establishment of refugee regimes at different…
Hardback – 2020-03-23
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History
This book examines the influence of Indian socio-political thought, ideas, and culture on German Romantic nationalism. It suggests that, contrary to the traditional view that the concepts of nationalism have moved exclusively from the West to the rest of the world, in the crucial case of German…
Hardback – 2020-03-06
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This book is a fresh examination of Rabindranath Tagore’s ideas on nationalism and his rhetoric of cosmopolitanism. It critically analyses the poetics and the politics of his works and specifically responds to Tagore’s three lectures on nationalism delivered during the early years of the twentieth…
Hardback – 2020-03-04
Routledge India
This book examines the development of education in China over the past three decades, exploring the ways in which the manifold ‘contradictions’ both within and between policy prescriptions, pedagogical theory and classroom implementation have been handled where issues of political socialisation,…
Hardback – 2020-02-29
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Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia
How do nations come to shape our collective imagination so profoundly? This book argues that the power of national identity and national belonging stems, in part, from the ways in which nationalism is embedded in popular culture. Comprised of chapters covering a wide range of cases from both the…
Hardback – 2020-02-18
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Popular Culture and World Politics
Originally published in 1974, Ritual in Industrial Society is based on several years’ research including interviews and observations into the importance of ritual in industrial society within modern Britain. The book addresses how identity and meaning for people of all occupations and social…
Hardback – 2020-02-07
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Routledge Library Editions: Ritual