Forthcoming History Books

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41. Japan

    The Hungry Guest

    By G Allen

    Written after the outbreak of war between Japan and China but putting aside British sentiments of suspicion, dislike and a sense of competition, G C Allen bases his observations of Japanese social, political and economic life on his first-hand experience of living and working in the country for a...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
42. Japan's Continental Adventure

    By Ching-Chun Wang

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    This book contains eighteen studies on various important phases of Japan’s invasion of China. The appendix contains the historical declaration by Chiang-Kai-shek setting forth clearly the reasons why China took up arms against Japanese aggression, and a lucid chapter by the veteran sinologist Owen...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
43. Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery

    Edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman

    In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Writers consider nineteenth and twentieth...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
44. Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Twentieth-Century Politics

    Reckoning with the Past

    Edited by Anatoly M. Khazanov, Stanley Payne

    Series: Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions

    These studies examine the ways in which succeeding democratic regimes have dealt with, or have ignored (and in several cases sugar-coated) an authoritarian or totalitarian past from 1943 to the present. They treat the relationship with democratization and the different ways in which collective...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
45. Iranian Elites and Turkish Rulers

    A History of Isfahan in the Saljuq Period

    By David Durand-Guedy

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey

    The Saljuq period of the eleventh and twelfth centuries saw the arrival in Iran of Türkmen nomads from Central Asia and the beginning of Turkish rule. Through the example of the city of Isfahan, the book analyses the internal evolution of Iranian society in this period and the interaction of the...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
46. International Money

    A Collection of Essays

    By Charles P. Kindlerberger

    Series: Economic History

    This book was first published in 1981....

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
47. Years of Recovery

    British Economic Policy 1945-51

    By Alec Cairncross

    Series: Economic History

    Years of Recovery was the first comprehensive study of the transition from war to peace in the British economy under the Labour government of 1945–51. It includes a full account of the successive crises and turning-points in those hectic years – the coal and convertibility crises of 1947,...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
48. Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama

    By Megan Sanborn Jones

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses specifically on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
49. International Trade

    Series: Economic History

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
50. Urban Sociology

    Critical Essays

    Edited by C.G. Pickvance

    This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available. This book was first published in 1976....

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge