European History Products

By Charles J Esdaile

First published in 1995 to great critical acclaim, The Wars of Napoleon provides students with a comprehensive survey of the Napoleonic Wars around the central theme of the scale of French military power and its impact on other European states, from Portugal to Russia and from Scandinavia to Sicily…

Paperback – 2019-02-13
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Modern Wars In Perspective

Edited by Wayne Franits

Despite the tremendous number of studies produced annually in the field of Dutch art over the last 30 years or so, and the strong contemporary market for works by Dutch masters of the period as well as the public's ongoing fascination with some of its most beloved painters, until now there has been…

Paperback – 2019-02-13
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Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions

By Linde Egberts

The urge for regional identity has not declined in the process of globalization. Rather, heritage is used to develop regional distinctiveness and to charge identities with a past. Particularly helpful for this aim are creation stories, Golden Ages or recent, shared traumas. Some themes such as the…

Paperback – 2019-02-07
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Edited by Maarten van Ginderachter, Jon Fox

National indifference is one of the most innovative notions historians have brought to the study of nationalism in recent years. The concept questions the mass character of nationalism in East Central Europe at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Ordinary people were not in thrall to…

Hardback – 2019-02-05
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History

By Yonca Köksal

The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era generates a new history of the Ottoman Empire’s Tanzimat reforms in the provinces of Edirne and Ankara. It studies variation across the two provinces and the crucial role of local intermediaries such as notables, tribal leaders, and merchants. The book…

Hardback – 2019-02-05
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SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

By Karl Federn

The Purpose of this history of Cardinal Richelieu is to show the living personality of the man - to show it evolving, reacting to and acted on by other personalities - and to portray the conditions in France as he found them and transformed them. Within such a narrow compass it is not possible to…

Paperback – 2019-01-31
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Routledge Revivals

Edited by Jacqueline Murray, Nicholas Terpstra

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject. In this interdisciplinary volume,…

Paperback – 2019-01-31
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By Alfred Francis Pribam

The following account of Austrian Foreign Policy and its directors during the decade 1908-18 coincides in part with that contained in the articles contributed by me in 1921 to the new volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (12th edition, 1922).…

Paperback – 2019-01-30
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Routledge Revivals

By Andrea Rapini

Despite the symbolic capital and the global commercial success of the Vespa scooter, there is no academic book dealing with its history, only literature produced by the company itself or by scooter enthusiasts. The origins of the Vespa are shrouded in mist, entrusted more to myth than to historical…

Hardback – 2019-01-29
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Routledge Studies in Cultural History

By Vern L. Bullough, Bonnie Bullough

Originally published in 1977. For centuries myth, misinformation and taboo have distorted our vision of our sexual nature. This book examines such cultural phenomena: from Greek dualistic thought to Buddhist philosophy; from the attempt of early Christian sects to promote total chastity to…

Hardback – 2019-01-28
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Routledge Library Editions: History of Sexuality

By Vern L. Bullough

Originally published in 1979. This is at once a look at the realities of homosexuality in history and an examination of the myths that have grown up around it. The record of practices and prejudices moves from biblical and classical through early and medieval Christian, Renaissance, and Victorian…

Hardback – 2019-01-28
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Routledge Library Editions: History of Sexuality

By Antony Copley

Originally published in 1989. This is the first history of modern France to explore the long-term origins of the libertarian revolt. It traces the moral history from the eighteenth century to the 1960s, examining the questions of marriage and divorce, homosexuality, and sexual morality. It includes…

Hardback – 2019-01-28
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Routledge Library Editions: History of Sexuality