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11. The Rise of Italian Fascism (RLE Responding to Fascism)

    1918-1922

    By A Rossi

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism

    The rise of Italian fascism is often seen as a pre-condition, as well as a precursor of, later developments in Europe most notably in Germany. As such they were also much discussed in the English speaking world throughout the 1930’s. First published in English in 1938 this book gives an account of...

    Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
12. Post-War Borneo, 1945-1950

    Nationalism, Empire and State-Building

    By Ooi Keat Gin

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

    This book examines Borneo, both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in the period 1945-1950. Borneo then was at the crossroads. Following the Japanese Occupation, the likely future status of the various Bornean territories was not at all clear, and the book...

    Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
13. Thurgood Marshall

    Race, Rights, and the Struggle for a More Perfect Union

    By Charles L. Zelden

    Series: Routledge Historical Americans

    Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991. He was the first African American to hold that position, and was one of the most influential legal actors of his time. Before being appointed to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson, Marshall was a lawyer...

    Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
14. Medieval England

    A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600 AD, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Paul E. Szarmach, Teresa M. Tavormina, Joel T. Rosenthal

    By drawing equally on the work of historians and archaeologists, Colin Platt puts forward a view of English medieval society in which there is much that is new and unexpected. Medieval England brings together a wide range of themes, from castle and palace to peasant hovel, from the great cathedrals...

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
15. The Ephemeral Civilization

    Exploding the Myth of Social Evolution

    By Graeme Snooks

    The Ephemeral Civilization is an astonishing intellectual feat in which Graeme Snooks develops an original and ground-breaking analysis of changing sociopolitical forms over the past 3,000 years. Snooks challenges the prevailing theories of social evolutionism with an innovative approach which also...

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
16. The War in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina 1991-1995

    By Branka Magas, Ivo Zanic

    Edited by Branka Magas, Ivo Zanic

    This work provides an understanding of the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. These two interdependent wars were the greatest armed conflicts in Europe in the second half of the 20th century. This work provides an analysis of their successes and failures....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
17. Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan

    By Curtis Anderson Gayle

    Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

    This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese society was undergoing the transformation from imperial state to democratic nation. For certain working and middle-class women involved in...

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
18. Six Centuries of Work and Wages

    The History of English Labour

    By James E. Thorold Rogers

    Series: Economic History

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
19. Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism

    Spectacle, Politics and History

    By Hong Kal

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
20. Great Cities of the World

    Their government, Politics and Planning

    Edited by W.A. Robson

    The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life, and civilized living arisen from uncontrolled urbanization. In the West and in the East, in the more developed and in the less developed...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge