Diplomatic History Products

By B.P. Wolffe

Originally published in 1971, The Royal Demesne in English History shows how Norman and Angevin kings were able to regard the whole of their English kingdom as their royal demesne in the continental medieval sense. The book argues that only through the later loss of their continental possessions…

Hardback – 2019-07-09 
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Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World

Edited by Elena Woodacre, Lucinda H.S. Dean, Chris Jones, Zita Rohr, Russell Martin

The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding of the history of monarchy from a variety of geographical, cultural and temporal contexts. Divided into four parts, this book presents a wide range of case studies…

Hardback – 2019-07-01 
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Routledge Histories

By Matthew McCormack

Citizenship and Gender in Britain, 1688-1928 explores the history of citizenship in Britain during a period when admission to the political community was commonly thought about in terms of gender. Between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Equal Franchise Act of 1928, the key question in…

Paperback – 2019-06-19 
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Edited by Jan Vermeiren, Matthew D'Auria

Given the destruction and suffering caused by more than four years of industrialised warfare and economic hardship, scholars have tended to focus on the nationalism and hatred in the belligerent countries, holding that it led to a fundamental rupture of any sense of European commonality and unity.…

Hardback – 2019-06-13 
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Ideas beyond Borders

By Haruko Hosoda

Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Spain’s Francisco Franco were two men with very similar backgrounds, but very different political ideologies. Both received a catholic education and had strong connections to the Galicia region of Spain. Both were familiar with guerrilla tactics and came to power through…

Hardback – 2019-05-23 
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Routledge Studies in Modern History

By Andrew Webster

Allies of Yesterday examines three intersecting themes of fundamental importance to the international history of the period between the two world wars. First and most broadly, it is a study of the international history of the pivotal years between the onset of the Depression in late 1929 and the…

Hardback – 2019-05-04 
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History

By Lazlo Passemiers

Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics argues that as much as the ‘Congo crisis’ (1960-1965) was a Cold War battleground, so too was it a battleground for Southern Africa’s decolonisation. This book provides a transnational history of African decolonisation, apartheid diplomacy, and Southern…

Hardback – 2019-03-26 
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The Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Series

By Daniel Lomas, Christopher John Murphy

Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies provides a global introduction to the role of intelligence – a key, but sometimes controversial, aspect of ensuring national security. Separating fact from fiction, the book draws on past examples to explore the use and misuse of intelligence,…

Paperback – 2019-02-27 
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Seminar Studies

Edited by Robert Morton

  This is a new series which publishes for the first time the correspondences of Sir Harry Smith Parkes (1828 – 1885) the second British Minister of Japan, and includes the complete transcriptions of his ‘private’ letters to and from Edmund Hammond, permanent Under-Secretary of State for…

Hardback – 2019-02-14
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Official and Unofficial British Attitudes to Japan, 1865-1883

By R. P. Barston

Contemporary, thoughtful and extensively illustrated, Modern Diplomacy examines a broad range of current diplomatic practice. This leading and widely used book - now in its fifth edition - equips students with a detailed analysis of important international issues that reflect and impact upon…

Paperback – 2019-01-18
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By Daphna Sharfman

This book presents a multidimensional case study of international human rights in the immediate post-Second World War period, and the way in which complex refugee problems created by the war were often in direct competition with strategic interests and national sovereignty. The case study is the…

Hardback – 2019-01-16
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History

By Tristen Naylor

Laying the foundations of a theory of ‘international social closure’ this book examines how actors compete for a seat at the table in the management of international society and how that competition stratifies the international domain. In a broad historical survey from the ‘Family of Civilised…

Hardback – 2018-12-17
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Global Governance