History Books

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1. The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Jessica Achberger

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Understanding European Movements

   New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

   Edited by Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Laurence Cox

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. Race, Science, and the Nation

   Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany

   By Chris Manias

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered peoples of prehistory. New fields – philology, archeology and anthropology –...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
4. International Trade Unionism (Routledge Revivals)

   By Charles Levinson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   As Secretary General of the ICF and previously Assistant General Secretary of the IMF, Charles Levinson played an important part in developing the countervailing labour response to the multinational corporations. His earlier work, Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals, 2013)...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. What is Microhistory?

   Theory and Practice

   By Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, István M. Szijártó

   This unique and detailed analysis provides the first accessible and comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, methodology of microhistory – one of the most significant innovations in historical scholarship to have emerged in the last few decades. The introduction guides the reader...

   Published May 16th 2013 by Routledge
6. Nazism as Fascism

   Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany 1930-1945

   By Geoff Eley

   Offering a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the key issues at the heart of the study of German Fascism, Nazism as Fascism brings together a selection of Geoff Eley’s most important writings on Nazism and the Third Reich. Featuring a wealth of revised, updated and new material, Nazism as...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
7. First World War Nursing

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Alison S. Fell, Christine E. Hallett

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   This book brings together a collection of works by scholars who have produced some of the most innovative and influential work on the topic of First World War nursing in the last ten years. The contributors employ an interdisciplinary collaborative approach that takes into account multiple facets...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
8. Ireland’s Great Famine and Popular Politics

   Edited by Enda Delaney, Breandán Mac Suibhne

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to Irish land activist Michael Davitt, the starving made little or no...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. The People of Aristophanes (Routledge Revivals)

   A Sociology of Old Attic Comedy

   By Victor Ehrenberg

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1951, The People of Aristophanes provides a sociological account of Athens in the period of its greatest glory. Drawing upon Old Attic Comedy and the plays of Aristophanes, the author recreates, for the reader, the life of Athens at that time. He writes extensively about social...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Spanish Tragedy (RLE Responding to Fascism)

    By Jef Last

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism

    The Spanish Civil War was one of the pivotal events of the 1930’s, the moment when fascism and socialism came into open conflict. First published in 1939, The Spanish Tragedy recounts the experiences of Jef Last. Activist, poet and novelist, Last might have been the archetypal Republican volunteer...

    Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge