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 – 2018-11-15
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History
The 1950s were a vital time in the history of science. In accordance with the intensification of the Cold War, many scientific talents were mobilized to several military-related research and development projects such as nuclear weapons, rocketry developments, computer science and others not only in…
Hardback – 2018-11-01
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Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
The first-ever attempt to paint a full scale portrait of the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia during the Asia-Pacific War (1942-1945). This book draws on the huge body of available narrative - military documents, bureaucratic records and personal accounts of combatants and civilians, including…
Hardback – 2018-10-01
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Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
This book is about the European health spas of the nineteenth century: what they were, how they operated, what life was like there and how their functions evolved to the point where their original medicinal purpose was relegated to a secondary place by the unintended uses of spas as stages of…
Paperback – 2018-09-29
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History
Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germany’s former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold War. This book unearths how this remarkable transformation derived from a network of liberal American occupation officials, and returned émigrés, or…
Hardback – 2018-09-14
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History
Having suffered military defeat at the hands of advanced Western powers in the 1850s, Russia and Japan embarked upon a program of catch-up and modernization in the late-19th Century. While the two states sought in the main to replicate the successes of the advanced great powers of the West, the…
Hardback – 2018-09-04
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Politics in Asia
The exact legacies of the two Hague Peace Conferences remain unclear. On the one hand, diplomatic and military historians, who cast their gaze to 1914, traditionally dismiss the events of 1899 and 1907 as insignificant footnotes on the path to the First World War. On the other, experts in…
Paperback – 2018-09-01
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Routledge Studies in Modern History
The Wars of the French Revolution, 1792-1801 offers a comprehensive and jargon free coverage of this turbulent period and unites political, social, military and international history in one volume. Carefully designed for undergraduate students, through twelve chapters this book offers an…
Paperback – 2018-08-23
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Relations between the new state of Israel and the European Union in the first twenty years of the Community’s existence were a major policy issue given the background of the Holocaust and the way the new nation was established. This book focuses on Israel-European Community relations from 1957 to…
Hardback – 2018-08-17
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History
This book tells the dramatic story of the recruitment and training of a group of German communist exiles by the London office of the Office of Strategic Services for key spy missions into Nazi Germany during the final months of World War II. The book chronicles their stand against the rise of…
Hardback – 2018-08-16
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Routledge Focus on the History of Conflict
Informal Alliance is the first archive-based history of the secretive Bilderberg Group, the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the height of the Cold War. Making extensive use of the recently opened Bilderberg Group archives as well as a wide range of private and official collections…
Hardback – 2018-08-14
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Routledge Studies in Modern History
What were the calculations made by the US and its major allies in the 1960s when they faced the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)? These were all states with the technological and financial capabilities to develop and possess nuclear weapons should they wish to do so. In the end, only…
Hardback – 2018-07-18
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Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics